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Book Stravinsky Inside Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles M. Joseph
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 030012936X
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Stravinsky Inside Out written by Charles M. Joseph and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popularly known during his lifetime as “The World’s Greatest Living Composer,” Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century’s most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveals Stravinsky’s two sides—the public persona, preoccupied with his own image and place in history, and the private composer, whose views and beliefs were often purposely suppressed. Charles M. Joseph draws a richer and more human portrait of Stravinsky than anyone has done before, using an array of unpublished materials and unreleased film trims from the composer’s huge archive at the Paul Sacher Institute in Switzerland. Focusing on Stravinsky’s place in the culture of the twentieth century, Joseph situates the composer among the giants of his age. He discusses Stravinsky’s first American commission, his complicated relationship with his son, his professional relationships with celebrities ranging from T. S. Eliot to Orson Welles, his flirtations with Hollywood and television, and his love-hate attitude toward the critics and the media. In a close look at Stravinsky’s efforts to mold a public image, Joseph explores the complex dance between the composer and his artistic collaborator, Robert Craft, who orchestrated controversial efforts to protect Stravinsky and edit materials about him, both during the composer’s lifetime and after his death.

Book Stravinsky on Stage

Download or read book Stravinsky on Stage written by Alexander Schouvaloff and published by London : Stainer & Bell. This book was released on 1982 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stravinsky on Stage

Download or read book Stravinsky on Stage written by Alexander Schouvaloff and published by London : Stainer & Bell. This book was released on 1982 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stravinsky in the Theatre

Download or read book Stravinsky in the Theatre written by Minna Lederman and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Expositions and Developments

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  • Author : Igor Stravinsky
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520334620
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Expositions and Developments written by Igor Stravinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 180 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 1962.

Book Stravinsky

Download or read book Stravinsky written by Eric Walter White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second edition of the definitive account of Igor Stravinsky's life and work, arranged in two separate sections, Eric Walter White revised the whole book, completing the biographical section by taking it up to Stravinsky's death in 1971. To the list of works, the author added some early pieces that have recently come to light, as well as the late compositions, including the Requiem Canticles and The Owl and the Pussycat. Four more of Stravinsky's own writings appear in the Appendices, and there are several important additions to the bibliography.

Book Stravinsky

    Book Details:
  • Author : Théodore Strawinsky
  • Publisher : Music Sales Group
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780825672903
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Stravinsky written by Théodore Strawinsky and published by Music Sales Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the composerâs eldest son Theodore, along with Theodoreâs wife Denise, these intimate memoirs take us to the very heart of the Stravinsky family home in the years up to the Second World War.

Book Stravinsky in the Theatre

Download or read book Stravinsky in the Theatre written by Minna Lederman and published by New York : Pellegrini & Cudahy. This book was released on 1949 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of his ballet and theater music, with a list of recordings of same.

Book Memories and Commentaries

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  • Author : Igor Stravinsky
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1981-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520044029
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Memories and Commentaries written by Igor Stravinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one volume--the celebrated Stravinsky and Craft Conversations Few would dispute that Igor Stravinsky was the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Conductor and writer Robert Craft was his closest colleague and friend, and for over twenty-one years he lived with the Stravinskys in their Hollywood home. In the early 1950s he accompanied the composer on his concert tours, and from the mid-1950s to Stravinsky's death in 1971 he co-conducted his concerts. Together Stravinsky and Craft published five acclaimed collections known as the Conversations series, which sprung from informal talks between the two men. In this newly edited and re-structured one-volume version, Craft brings Stravinsky's reflections on his childhood, his family life, professional associates, and personal relationships into sharper focus and places the major compositions in their cultural milieux. The Conversations books are the only published writing attributed to Stravinsky that are actually "by him" in terms of fidelity to his thoughts and opinions, making this volume required reading for all fans and students of Stravinsky's music.

Book Stravinsky

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  • Author : Eric Walter White
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486297552
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Stravinsky written by Eric Walter White and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating critical and biographical portrait of famed 20th-century composer includes commentary on the evolution of such masterworks as The Firebird, Petrouchka, Le Sacre du Printemps, Pulcinella, and Histoire du Soldat.

Book Stravinsky and the Stage

Download or read book Stravinsky and the Stage written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stravinsky s Ballets

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  • Author : Charles M. Joseph
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780300118728
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Stravinsky s Ballets written by Charles M. Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joseph provides superb analyses of each of Stravinsky's ballet pieces, examining the composer's own drafts, notes and sketches to discover how he conceived of and developed each work."--Jacket.

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 An Autobiography

Download or read book An Autobiography written by Igor Stravinsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stravinsky reflects upon episodes in his life as a composer and performer.

Book Lettres de suspension de la Cour ordinaire de Lyon  donn  es par le roy et adress  es au s  n  chal de Lyon  en date du dernier novembre 1531

Download or read book Lettres de suspension de la Cour ordinaire de Lyon donn es par le roy et adress es au s n chal de Lyon en date du dernier novembre 1531 written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dialogues

Download or read book Dialogues written by Igor Stravinsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stravinsky and the Musical Body

Download or read book Stravinsky and the Musical Body written by Massimiliano Locanto and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that the body plays an essential role in music has stimulated a wide range of new approaches in recent musicology. This book tries to apply them to the music of Igor Stravinsky from the perspective of the creative process and the construction of meaning. Most of the works examined are compositions for theatre and dance, and the analyses address many other features of the spectacle, such as choreography, scenography, stage, and television direction. That said, many compositions not intended for the stage are also considered from the perspective of the 'embodied' creative process and their implicit bodily expressiveness. Each chapter focuses on a number of Stravinsky's most famous and significant works, from the Firebird to the late serial compositions. A special place is reserved for the latter, which undoubtedly constitute the least well-known part of Stravinsky's output. The chapters are accompanied by a large number of analyses that invite readers to go 'beyond' the musical text while still relying on it, allowing them to understand how the strong physicality clearly perceived in Stravinsky's music can be associated with some of its formal and structural characteristics. In so doing, the book encourages the reader to overcome overly rigid dichotomies such as formalist/contextualist, or historical/ analytical.