Confronting Stravinsky : man, musician, and modernist /

This book grew out of the International Stravinsky Symposium and the papers commissioned for it. The participants' new insights fall into three broad categories. First, there are those of a general nature that shed light on some of the central aesthetic issues of our time, as reflected in Strav...

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Other Authors: Pasler, Jann (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1986.
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Table of Contents:
  • Igor Stravinsky and Russian preliterate theater / Simon Karlinsky
  • From subject to style : Stravinsky and the painters / Richard Taruskin
  • Stravinsky and Prokofiev : sizing up the competition / Malcolm Hamrick Brown
  • Music and spectacle in Petrushka and The rite of spring / Jann Pasler
  • The devil's dance : Stravinsky's corporal imagination / Roger Shattuck
  • Set designing for Stravinsky / David Hockney
  • Harmonic syntax and voice leading in Stravinsky's early music / Allen Forte
  • Octatonic pitch structure in Stravinsky / Pieter C. van den Toorn
  • Writing The rite right / Louis Cyr
  • Discontinuity and proportion in the music of Stravinsky / Jonathan D. Kramer
  • Aspects of the religious music of Igor Stravinsky / Gilbert Amy
  • The utopian unison / Elmer Schönberger and Louis Andriessen
  • The canon and Stravinsky's late style / Glenn Watkins
  • Order, symmetry, and centricity in late Stravinsky / Milton Babbitt
  • On the significance of Stravinsky's last works / Charles Wuorinen and Jeffrey Kresky
  • Three Japanese lyrics and japonisme / Takashi Funayama
  • Stravinsky and the pianola / Rex Lawson
  • Stravinsky, Dushkin, and the violin / Boris Schwarz
  • Schoenberg and 'Kleine modernsky' / Leonard Stein
  • The genius and the goddess / Edwin Allen
  • Stravinsky at home / Lawrence Morton.