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Book Igor Stravinsky

Download or read book Igor Stravinsky written by James R. Heintze and published by Warren, MI : Harmonie Park Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and bachelor's essays are represented by 200 colleges and universities in 18 countries. Included are works that deal primarily with one of the most significant composers of the twentieth century and studies that indirectly contain references to the composer.

Book The Late Choral Works of Igor Stravinsky

Download or read book The Late Choral Works of Igor Stravinsky written by Rusty Dale Elder and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his preeminence in twentieth-century music, the late works of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) remain in relative obscurity: seldom performed, inadequately recorded, poorly understood, and frequently disparaged. The troubled reception of these works stands in remarkable contradiction to the composer's ever-increasing renown; few contemporary composers can rival Stravinsky in terms of popular acclaim, concert performances, recordings, or continuing influence. Stravinsky's late pieces were the subject of enormous controversy in the 1950s and 1960s. Written using the fractious twelve-tone method of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), these scores represent perhaps the most astonishing change of style ever undertaken by a composer of comparable stature. This thesis will survey the reception of Stravinsky's major late vocal works in England and America, including In memoriam Dylan Thomas (1954), Canticum sacrum (1956), Threni (1958), A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer (1961), The Flood (1962), Introitus (1965), and Requiem Canticles (1966). The reception of each piece will be traced chronologically, beginning with responses to première performances and progressing to contemporary scholarship.

Book Choral Monuments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dennis Shrock
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0190469021
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Choral Monuments written by Dennis Shrock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral Monuments provides extensive material about eleven epoch-making choral masterworks that span the history of Western culture. Included are: Missa Pange lingua (Josquin Desprez); Missa Papae Marcelli (G. P. da Palestrina); B Minor Mass (J. S. Bach); Messiah (G. F. Handel); The Creation (Joseph Haydn); Symphony #9 (Ludwig van Beethoven); St. Paul (Felix Mendelssohn); Ein deutsches Requiem (Johannes Brahms); Messa da Requiem (Giuseppe Verdi); Mass (Igor Stravinsky); and War Requiem (Benjamin Britten). The works are presented in separate chapters, with each chapter divided into three basic sections-history, analysis, and performance practice. Discussions of history are focused on relevancies-the genesis of the designated work in reference to the composer's total choral output, the work's place within the musical environment and social climate of its time, and essential features of the work that make it noteworthy. In addition, the compositional history addresses three other factors: the work's public reception and critical response, both at the time of its composition and in ensuing years; the history of score publications, detailing the various differences between editions; and the texts of the composition. The material regarding textual treatment, which often includes the complete texts of the works being discussed, concentrates on primary concerns of the text's usage; also included in the discussion are noteworthy aspects of texts separate from the music as well as biographical details of librettists and poets, if appropriate. The analysis section of each chapter outlines and describes musical forms and other types of compositional organization, including parody technique, mirror structures, and motto repetitions, as well as salient compositional characteristics that directly relate and contribute to the work's artistic stature. Numerous charts and musical examples illustrate the discussions. The discussion of performance practices includes primary source quotations about a wide range of topics, from performing forces, tempo, and phrasing of each work to specific issues such as tactus, text underlay, musica ficta, metric accentuation, and ornamentation.

Book Stravinsky s Topology

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  • Author : Andrew Thomas Kuster
  • Publisher : Andrew Kuster
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 1411664582
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Stravinsky s Topology written by Andrew Thomas Kuster and published by Andrew Kuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stravinsky's Topology is an innovative explanation of the music of the great composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Specifically, this book examines Stravinsky's implementation of certain twelve-tone row forms for particular formal events and to enhance the poetry in his later works with poetic texts. This book, reprinted from a doctoral dissertation, presents a new analytical method called Object-Oriented analysis to study Stravinsky's smaller works Epitaphium, Anthem, Elegy for J. F. K., Fanfare for a New Theater, and The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. The remainder of this book is devoted to a detailed examination of Stravinsky's expanded Object-Oriented compositional technique in The Flood and in his largest late work, Threni. This investigation concludes with remarks about how a conductor can apply Object-Oriented analysis in performance. 216 pages.

Book Igor Stravinsky  the Rake s Progress

Download or read book Igor Stravinsky the Rake s Progress written by Paul Griffiths and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.

Book Analyses of Symphony of Psalms  1930  Rev  1948  and Requiem Canticles  1966  by Igor Stravinsky

Download or read book Analyses of Symphony of Psalms 1930 Rev 1948 and Requiem Canticles 1966 by Igor Stravinsky written by Vincent Lewis Cole and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Choral Music of Igor Stravinsky

Download or read book The Choral Music of Igor Stravinsky written by Charlotte A. Koch and published by . This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Analysis of Four Choral Works by Igor Stravinsky

Download or read book An Analysis of Four Choral Works by Igor Stravinsky written by Edward R. Hotaling and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stravinsky s Late Music

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  • Author : Joseph N. Straus
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-03-25
  • ISBN : 9780521602884
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Stravinsky s Late Music written by Joseph N. Straus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period.

Book Igor Stravinsky s Requiem Canticles

Download or read book Igor Stravinsky s Requiem Canticles written by Wayne Oquin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stravinsky

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  • Author : Eric Walter White
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1948
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Stravinsky written by Eric Walter White and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey, with a list of recordings of the works of Stravinsky.

Book The Language of Stravinsky

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  • Author : Angelo Cantoni
  • Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
  • Release : 2014-10-31
  • ISBN : 3487151189
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book The Language of Stravinsky written by Angelo Cantoni and published by Georg Olms Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ein neuer methodischer Zugriff charakterisiert Angelo Cantonis mehr als 40 Jahre nach Stravinskijs Tod entstandene Schrift The Language of Stravinsky. Darin geht es sowohl um die einzelnen Werke als auch um die Entwicklung von Stravinskijs Tonsprache während der gesamten Schaffenszeit. Hauptziele der Arbeit sind die Gesamtanalyse von Kompositionen sowie der Nachweis einer die verschiedenen Schaffensphasen, die Stilvielfalt, die wechselnden Besetzungen und den Wandel musiktheatralischer Gattungen übergreifenden Kohärenz seiner Musik. Obwohl Stravinskijs Werk oftmals in drei verschiedene Stilperioden – die russische, die neoklassizistische und die serielle – untergliedert wird, zeichnet es sich durch gemeinsame Konstruktionsprinzipien einer ureigenen Tonsprache aus. Die Analysen legen deren grundlegende Elemente und ihre Grammatik offen. Jedes der acht Kapitel des Buches ist auf einen Aspekt der Tonsprache Stravinskijs fokussiert, jeweils in der Abfolge der Chronologie der Werke. Aus diesem Grund werden dieselben Kompositionen in mehreren Kapiteln unter verschiedener Perspektive untersucht. Auf diese Weise ergeben sich ganz wesentliche neue Einsichten zum Gesamtschaffen Stravinskijs. The Language of Stravinsky proposes new methods of looking at Stravinsky’s work, more than 40 years after his death. It considers both his individual compositions and the evolution of his work over his lifetime. The main purpose of the book is to analyse and clarify the inner coherence of Stravinsky’s music, despite the wide variety of styles, instrumental combinations and theatrical modes with which he worked. Though his career is often seen as falling into three distinct periods – Russian, Neoclassical and Serial – his work as a whole is threaded through with a language unique to himself as a composer. The analysis presented in this account identifies the basic elements and grammar of this underlying musical language. Each of the eight chapters of the book focuses on one aspect of Stravinsky’s musical language, followed chronologically within that chapter. The same works are therefore often studied in different chapters, looked at from a different musical perspective. This analysis of Stravinsky’s music over time provides major new insights into his work.

Book The Music of Stravinsky

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  • Author : Pieter C. van den Toorn
  • Publisher : CRC Press
  • Release : 2023-05-12
  • ISBN : 1000821773
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book The Music of Stravinsky written by Pieter C. van den Toorn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinskymay have been the greatest as well. Stretching across forty or so years, the essays in this volume address the dynamics of Igor Stravinsky’s music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Underscored are the features of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form that would remain consistently a part of Stravinsky’s oeuvre regardless of the changes in orientation from the Russian period to the neoclassical and the early serial. The Rite of Spring (1913), Les Noces (1917–23), the Symphony of Psalms (1930), and the Symphony in Three Movements (1945) are discussed in detail, as are many of the circumstances attending their conception. Other concerns include the composer’s "formalist" aesthetics and the strict performing style he pursued as an interpreter and conductor of his music.

Book Confronting Stravinsky

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  • Author : Jann Pasler
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-12-22
  • ISBN : 0520332466
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Confronting Stravinsky written by Jann Pasler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Book A Conductor s Guide to Choral orchestral Works  The music of Rachmaninov through Penderecki

Download or read book A Conductor s Guide to Choral orchestral Works The music of Rachmaninov through Penderecki written by Jonathan D. Green and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Works to be included must be for full chorus and orchestra, containing some English text, and composed between 1900 and 1972"--Introd.

Book Sacred works

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  • Author : Igor Stravinsky
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Sacred works written by Igor Stravinsky and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: