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The language of Stravinsky / Angelo Cantoni.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.S932 C16 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cantoni, Angelo, author.
- Series:
- Musikwissenschaftliche Publikationen ; 0944-8608 Bd. 42.
- Musikwissenschaftliche Publikationen, 0944-8608 ; Bd. 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stravinsky, Igor.
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 500 pages : music ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hildesheim : George Olms Verlag, 2014.
- Summary:
- "The Lanugage of Stravinsky proposes new methods of looking at Stravinsky's work, more than 40 years after his death. It considers both his individual compositions and the evolution of his work over his lifetime. The main purpose of the book is to analyse and clarify the inner coherence of Stravinsky's music, despite the wide variety of styles, instrumental combinations and theatrical modes with which he worked. Though his career is oftens een as falling into three distinct periods - Russian, Neoclassical and Serial - his work as a whole is threaded through with a language unique to himself as a composer. The analysis presented in this account identifies the basic elements and grammar of this underlying musical language. Each of the eight chapters of the book focuses on one aspect of Stravinsky's musical language, followed chronologically within that chapter. The same works are therefore often studied in different chapters, looked at from a different musical perspective. This analysis of Stravinsky's music over time provides major new insights into his work"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Generative cells
- Patterns
- Metric shifts : Stravinsky's Cubist technique
- The death of Petrushka : on augmentation in the music of Stravinsky
- Scales, arpeggios and ostinatos
- Stratification and heterophony
- Melodic principles in the Russian and serial periods
- My beginning is my end.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-496) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783487151182
- 3487151189
- OCLC:
- 898590937
- Online:
- Publisher description
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