Description: Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic belief and performance practice are seen as flowing directly from the musical invention. The book provides a counter-argument to the criticism and aesthetics of T. W. Adorno and Richard Taruskin, and will appeal to composers, critics and performers as well as scholars of Stravinsky's music.
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EAN: 9781107543621
UPC: 9781107543621
ISBN: 9781107543621
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Item Length: 24.4 cm
Book Title: Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom
Item Height: 245mm
Item Width: 170mm
Author: John Mcginness, Pieter C. Van Den Toorn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Music
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 600 g
Number of Pages: 338 Pages
