After the Rite - Stravinsky''s Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925)

Zusatztext If Stravinsky's legacy to the twentieth century (and beyond) is to be fully evaluated! then an analytical rehearing of his neoclassical works is long overdue. Informationen zum Autor Maureen A. Carr is a Distinguished Professor of Music and teaches undergraduate and graduate music theory at the Pennsylvania State University. A scholar of the music of Igor Stravinsky, she has studied his manuscripts and other documents extensively at the Stravinsky Archive of the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland, as well as at archives in Paris and London. Her previous writings include Multiple Masks: Neoclassicism in Stravinsky's Works on Greek Subjectsand Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat: A Facsimile of the Sketches. Her most recent publication, Stravinsky's Pulcinella: A Facsimile of the Sources and Sketches, received a Citation of Special Merit for her book from the Society for Music Theory (SMT). Klappentext After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) traces the evolution of Stravinsky's compositional style as he searched for his own voice in the explosive musical world of the early 20th century as he responded to harsh criticisms of his work. Zusammenfassung After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) traces the evolution of Stravinsky's compositional style as he searched for his own voice in the explosive musical world of the early 20th century as he responded to harsh criticisms of his work. PROLOGUE ; CHAPTER ONE: ; THE EMERGENCE OF STRAVINSKY'S NEOCLASSICISM AND THE AESTHETIC UNDERPINNINGS OF THE IDEA IN THE OTHER ARTS AND IN RECENT SOCIAL/POLITICAL HISTORY ; CHAPTER TWO: ; STRAVINSKY AT THE CROSSROADS AFTER THE RITE ; JEU DE ROSSIGNOL MECANIQUE [PERFORMANCE OF THE MECHANICAL NIGHTINGALE] (1 AUGUST 1913) ; TROIS PIECES (VL 2, VA, VC; ), II [THREE PIECES FOR STRING QUARTET, II] ; GROTESQUES ; "ECCENTRIQUE" (2 JULY 1914) ; TROIS PIECES FACILES (KL 4 HDG) [THREE EASY PIECES] (4 HANDS) ; "MARCHE" (19 DECEMBER 1914) ; CHAPTER THREE: ; STRAVINSKY AT THE CROSSROADS BETWEEN PRIMITIVISM AND NEOCLASSICISM ; RENARD [BAJKA](1915-1916) ; AND ; HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT (1917-1918) ; CHAPTER FOUR: ; STRAVINSKY'S IMPROVISATORY STYLE ; THE PREDICTIVE QUALITIES OF THE ETUDE POUR PIANOLA (1917) ; STRAVINSKY'S APPROPRIATION OF THE "RAG IDIOM" (1917) ; STRAVINSKY COMPLETES THREE WORKS THAT WERE INSPIRED BY ELEMENTS OF RAGTIME (1918): ; (1) RAGTIME (FOR PIANO AND THE SAME PIECE ARRANGED FOR 11 INSTRUMENTS), ; (2) "RAGTIME" AS ONE OF THE THREE DANCES IN HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT AND ; (3) THE LAST MOVEMENT OF TROIS PIECES POUR CLARINETTE. ; THE TWO FACES OF STRAVINSKY'S PIANO-RAG-MUSIC (1919): PORTRAIT OR COLLAGE? ; CHAPTER FIVE: ; STRAVINSKY'S COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS FOR SYMPHONIES D'INSTRUMENTS A VENT (191?-1920) AND CONCERTINO (1920) AS UNDERSTOOD THROUGH THE OVERLAPPING OF THE MUSICAL SKETCHES AND THE RESULTING SOUND BLOCKS ; CHAPTER SIX: ; LES CINQ DOIGTS (1921) AS A LINK BETWEEN PULCINELLA (1919-1920) AND MAVRA (1922) ; COMMENTARIES BY POULENC, SCHLOEZER, COCTEAU AND MAYAKOVSKY WITH STRAVINSKY AT THE PLEYEL FACTORY (NOVEMBER 18, 1922); RETROSPECTIVE COMMENTARIES ABOUT MAVRA IN POETICS ; CHAPTER SEVEN: ; STRAVINSKY'S NEOCLASSICISM FLOURISHES IN OKTETT (1919-1923) ; EXPERIMENTS WITH CINQ PIECES MONOMETRIQUES (-; 192?) ; KONZERT (PIANO AND WINDS) (1923-1924) ; CHAPTER EIGHT: ; STRAVINSKY'S MODELS FROM THE PIANO LITERATURE (BY BACH, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN) ; NPR INTERVIEW WITH CHARLES ROSEN AND ELLIOT CARTER ON BEETHOVEN INFLUENCES IN THE SONATA ; COMMENTARIES BY ARTHUR LOURIE, BORIS DESHLOEZER, ROMAN VLAD ; SONATE (PIANO) (1924) ; SERENADE EN LA (1925) ; EPILOGUE ...

Summary

After the Rite: Stravinsky's Path to Neoclassicism (1914-1925) traces the evolution of Stravinsky's compositional style as he searched for his own voice in the explosive musical world of the early 20th century as he responded to harsh criticisms of his work.

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• Authors: Maureen A. Carr, Maureen A. (Professor of Music Carr
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9780199742936
• ISBN: 978-0-19-974293-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history