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Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 2016-04-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520293495 |
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This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music. During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsky's relationship to the musical and artistic traditions of his native land and gives us a dramatically new picture of one of the major figures in the history of music. Taruskin draws directly on newly accessible archives and on a wealth of Russian documents. In Volume One, he sets the historical scene: the St. Petersburg musical press, the arts journals, and the writings of anthropologists, folklorists, philosophers, and poets. Volume Two addresses the masterpieces of Stravinsky's early maturityÑPetrushka, The Rite of Spring, and Les Noces. Taruskin investigates the composer's collaborations with Diaghilev to illuminate the relationship between folklore and modernity. He elucidates the Silver Age ideal of "neonationalism"Ñthe professional appropriation of motifs and style characteristics from folk artÑand how Stravinsky realized this ideal in his music. Taruskin demonstrates how Stravinsky achieved his modernist technique by combining what was most characteristically Russian in his musical training with stylistic elements abstracted from Russian folklore. The stylistic synthesis thus achieved formed Stravinsky as a composer for life, whatever the aesthetic allegiances he later professed. Written with Taruskin's characteristic mixture of in-depth research and stylistic verve, this book will be mandatory reading for all those seriously interested in the life and work of Stravinsky.
Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 992 |
Release | : 2016-04-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520293487 |
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This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music. During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsky's relationship to the musical and artistic traditions of his native land and gives us a dramatically new picture of one of the major figures in the history of music. Taruskin draws directly on newly accessible archives and on a wealth of Russian documents. In Volume One, he sets the historical scene: the St. Petersburg musical press, the arts journals, and the writings of anthropologists, folklorists, philosophers, and poets. Volume Two addresses the masterpieces of Stravinsky's early maturityÑPetrushka, The Rite of Spring, and Les Noces. Taruskin investigates the composer's collaborations with Diaghilev to illuminate the relationship between folklore and modernity. He elucidates the Silver Age ideal of "neonationalism"Ñthe professional appropriation of motifs and style characteristics from folk artÑand how Stravinsky realized this ideal in his music. Taruskin demonstrates how Stravinsky achieved his modernist technique by combining what was most characteristically Russian in his musical training with stylistic elements abstracted from Russian folklore. The stylistic synthesis thus achieved formed Stravinsky as a composer for life, whatever the aesthetic allegiances he later professed. Written with Taruskin's characteristic mixture of in-depth research and stylistic verve, this book will be mandatory reading for all those seriously interested in the life and work of Stravinsky.
Author | : Richard Taruskin |
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Total Pages | : 969 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2000-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691070650 |
Download Defining Russia Musically Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
with an air of alterity--sensed, exploited, bemoaned, reveled in, traded on, and defended against both from within and from without." The author's goal is to explore this assumption of otherness in an all-encompassing work that re-creates the cultural contexts of the folksong anthologies of the 1700s, the operas, symphonies, and ballets of the 1800s, the modernist masterpieces of the 1900s, and the hugely fraught but ambiguous products of the Soviet period. Taruskin begins by showing how enlightened aristocrats, reactionary romantics, and the theorists and victims of totalitarianism have variously fashioned their vision of Russian society in musical terms. He then examines how Russia as a whole shaped its identity in contrast to an "East" during the age of its imperialist expansion, and in contrast to two different musical "Wests," Germany and Italy, during the formative years of its national consciousness.
Author | : Pieter C. van den Toorn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107021006 |
Download Stravinsky and the Russian Period Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fresh look at Stravinsky's musical style, from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles.
Author | : John Reef |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253027357 |
Download The Rite of Spring at 100 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Klara Moricz |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520975529 |
Download In Stravinsky's Orbit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Bolsheviks’ 1917 political coup caused a seismic disruption in Russian culture. Carried by the first wave of emigrants, Russian culture migrated West, transforming itself as it interacted with the new cultural environment and clashed with exported Soviet trends. In this book, Klára Móricz explores the transnational emigrant space of Russian composers Igor Stravinsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Nicolas Nabokov, and Arthur Lourié in interwar Paris. Their music reflected the conflict between a modernist narrative demanding innovation and a narrative of exile wedded to the preservation of prerevolutionary Russian culture. The emigrants’ and the Bolsheviks’ contrasting visions of Russia and its past collided frequently in the French capital, where the Soviets displayed their political and artistic products. Russian composers in Paris also had to reckon with Stravinsky’s disproportionate influence: if they succumbed to fashions dictated by their famous compatriot, they risked becoming epigones; if they kept to their old ways, they quickly became irrelevant. Although Stravinsky’s neoclassicism provided a seemingly neutral middle ground between innovation and nostalgia, it was also marked by the exilic experience. Móricz offers this unexplored context for Stravinsky’s neoclassicism, shedding new light on this infinitely elusive term.
Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520268059 |
Download The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Richard Taruskin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1997-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780691016238 |
Download Musorgsky Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Incorporating both new and now-classic essays, this book sets the vocal works of Modest Musorgsky in a fully detailed cultural, political, and historical context, elevating the composer's image over other biographers. Among the book's many offerings are the most complete explanation of the revision of the opera "Boris Godunov", and a revisionary characterization of "Khovanshchina" as an aristocratic tragedy resulting from a pessimistic view of history. Includes 102 music examples.
Author | : Joseph N. Straus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2004-03-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521602884 |
Download Stravinsky's Late Music Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first book to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period.