Rite Of Spring

Author : Modris Eksteins
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307361776

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Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins Pdf

Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins. Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the aftermath of World War I--from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point...for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places." In this extraordinary book, Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh's transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring is a remarkable and rare work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past and toward our future.

Author : John Reef
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253027351

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The Rite of Spring at 100 by John Reef Pdf

When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as distinguished music and dance scholars discuss the meaning of the work and its far-reaching influence on world music, performance, and culture. Essays explore four key facets of the ballet: its choreography and movement; the cultural and historical contexts of its performance and reception in France; its structure and use of innovative rhythmic and tonal features; and the reception of the work in Russian music history and theory.

Author : Joseph N. Straus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521602882

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Stravinsky's Late Music by Joseph N. Straus Pdf

The first book to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period.

Author : Gillian Moore
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781838932091

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The Rite of Spring by Gillian Moore Pdf

The story behind the scandalous first performance of one of the most influential works in the history of music, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. On 29 May 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a new ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, received its premiere. Many of the cultural big names of Paris were there, or were rumoured to have been there: Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Gertrude Stein, Picasso. When the curtain rose on a cast of frenziedly stamping dancers, a near-riot ensued, ensuring the evening would enter the folklore of modernism. While it was the dancing that triggered the mayhem, Stravinsky's score contained shocks enough, with its innovations in form, rhythm, dissonance and its sheer sonic power. The Rite of Spring would achieve recognition in its own right as a concert piece, and is now seen as one of the most influential works of the 20th century. Gillian Moore explores the cultural climate that created The Rite, tells the story of the creation of the music and the ballet and provides a guide to the music itself, showing how a scandalous novelty of 1913 became a 21st-century concert staple. As well as considering its influence on 20th-century classical composers, she probes The Rite's impact on film music (including scores for Star Wars and Jaws); its extensive influence on jazz musicians (including Charlie Parker) and by artists as diverse as Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa and The Pet Shop Boys.

Author : Pieter C. Van den Toorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520059581

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Stravinsky and the Rite of Spring by Pieter C. Van den Toorn Pdf

Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486411743

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The rite of spring by Igor Stravinsky Pdf

With this brilliant and uncompromising work perhaps the most famous musical work of the twentieth century Stravinsky changed the course of modern music forever. Discarding conventional harmonies for bizarrely dissonant chords, and uniform metrics for harshly jarring beat patterns, he created a sensational theater piece that, at the work's 1931 premier, caused the music world's most talked-about riot. "Every law of musical syntax, every canon of harmony seems to have been violated, every limit of rhythmic perversity and eccentricity of orchestration exceeded in this tumultuous cataclysm of sound," says "Grove's"; "yet with all its deliberate crudity and violence the 'Rite' is a clearly planned and perfectly controlled and coordinated piece of music [that] has long been accepted universally as a masterpiece and is in the repertory of every large symphony orchestra." Reproduced here from an authoritative edition, the score is ideal for study in the classroom, at home, or in the concert hall. This affordable, durable, and portable volume will be the edition of choice for music students and music lovers alike."

Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300105371

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The Harmonic Organization of The Rite of Spring by Allen Forte Pdf

Forte here applies his analytical approach as set forth in The Structure of Atonal Music to one of the monuments of modern music. Together the introduction and the analysis, with its more than 100 musical examples, both illuminate the structure of the work and demonstrate the way in which Forte's method may be applied in the analysis of complex music. "[This study] is welcome and long overdue.. The influence of Allen Forte on contemporary music theory has been enormous, and The Harmonic Organization of "The Rite of Spring" has importance for a number of serious musicians, particularly, for disciples and others interested in set-theoretic approach, and for those interested in Stravinsky's work..Seeing the theory applied consistently to a specific work can show if it provides any true illumination of the work..This study should not be ignored."-Frank Retzel, Notes

Author : Peter Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521627141

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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring by Peter Hill Pdf

A comprehensive and highly readable guide to Stravinsky's most revolutionary work.

Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457487055

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The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky Pdf

The Rite of Spring was commissioned as an orchestral work for a ballet and premiered in Paris in 1913. Differing views of both the music and choreography led to a riot by the audience. The piece is divided into two parts: "The Adoration of the Earth" and "The Exalted Sacrifice." Stravinsky's piece has many defining characteristics, such as its polytonalities, polyrhythms, ostinato layers, and dissonance. This piano reduction for one piano, four hands was written by Stravinsky.

Author : Lauren Stringer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547907253

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When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky by Lauren Stringer Pdf

Composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian comrades, worked together to bring a very different and new ballet to a Parisian audienceN"The Rite of Spring"Nand rioting filled the streets! Full color.

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429932882

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The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross Pdf

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457468336

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Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) by Igor Stravinsky Pdf

Expertly arranged Full Orchestra Miniature Score by Igor Stravinsky from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the 20th Century era.

Author : Modris Eksteins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 061808231X

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Walking Since Daybreak by Modris Eksteins Pdf

Part history, part autobiography, Eksteins relates the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II through personal stories from his family. Photos and map.

Author : Modris Eksteins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674069541

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Solar Dance by Modris Eksteins Pdf

In Modris Eksteins’s hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker’s sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh’s work unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a world of defined values and standards that had already begun to erode during the war. Van Gogh emerged posthumously as a hero who rejected organized religion and other suspect sources of authority in favor of art. Self-pitying Germans saw in his biography a series of triumphs—over defeat, poverty, and meaninglessness—that spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the collapsing Weimar Republic that made Van Gogh famous and gave Wacker an opportunity for reinvention propelled a third misfit into the spotlight. Taking advantage of the void left by a gutted belief system, Hitler gained power by fashioning myths of mastery. Filled with characters who delight and frighten, Solar Dance merges cultural and political history to show how upheavals of the early twentieth century gave rise to a search for authenticity and purpose.

Author : Eric Walter White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520039858

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Stravinsky by Eric Walter White Pdf

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.