Stravinsky''s Ballets

Informationen zum Autor Charles M. Joseph is professor emeritus of music and the former dean and vice president of academic affairs! Skidmore College. He is the author of two previous books published by Yale University Press! Stravinsky and Balanchine! the winner of an ASCAP Award in Biography! and Stravinsky Inside Out. He lives in Saratoga Springs! NY. Klappentext Superb analyses of each of Stravinsky's ballet pieces! showing how he conceived and developed each work and how he changed the definition of music made for dance. Zusammenfassung Igor Stravinsky was a towering composer of the twentieth century and closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - "The Firebird"! "Petrouchka"! and "The Rite of Spring" - put him on the international map. This survey analyses each of Stravinsky's ballet pieces.

Product details

• Authors: Charles M. Joseph, JOSEPH CHARLES M, Joseph Charles M.
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9780300118728
• ISBN: 978-0-300-11872-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Yale Music Masterworks; Yale Music Masterworks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Ballet, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Ballet, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music