The Music of Stravinsky (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Igor Stravinsky was certainly the most celebrated Western composer of the 20th century and possibly the greatest as well. The essays in this volume, spanning more than forty, address the dynamics of 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 "stylistic" orientation from the Russian period to the neoclassical and the early serial. Works such as 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 major concerns include the composer's formalist aesthetics and the strict performing style he pursued as an interpreter and conductor of his music.