Research Catalog

Title

The music of Igor Stravinsky / Pieter C. van den Toorn.

Author

Van den Toorn, Pieter C., 1938-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

Irwin K. Carson Collection. mus

Description

xxi, 512 p. : music; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Composers of the twentieth century

Uniform Title

Composers of the twentieth century

Subject

• Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
• Composers > Russia > Biography

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 501-505.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Firebird (1910). Introduction ; "Danse infernale" ; "Danse infernale" and finale: rhythmic-metric implications ; "Khorovod" -- Petroushka (1911): an introduction to the octatonic pitch collection and its deployment in Stravinsky's music. The lists ; The models ; Some useful (and useless) explanatory notions ; The familiar orientation categories or periods -- Petroushka: the diatonic pitch collection in the music of Stravinsky's "Russian" period. Pitch relations in the first tableau ; Russian folk music in "Russian" music ; Repercussions -- Le Sacre du Printemps [The Rite of Spring] (1913). Pitch relations ; Conclusions ; Some general considerations ; Rhythmic-metric implications -- Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914). Some general considerations ; Pitch relations ; Conclusions -- Les Noces [The Wedding] (1917). Pitch relations ; Conclusions -- Histoire du Soldat [Soldier's Tale] (1918). Pitch relations ; Looking ahead: two neoclassical examples ; Some general considerations -- Rhythmic (or metric) invention. Histoire du Soldat (1918) and Renard (1916) ; Repercussions -- The neoclassical initiative. Change of life ; Some general considerations ; Pitch relations -- "Minor-major third" emphasis. "Basle" Concerto in D (1946) ; Symphony in Three Movements (1945): nos. 112-18 ; Danses concertantes (1942) ; Babel (1944) ; Symphony of Psalms (1930): third movement, nos. 0-3 ; Oedipus Rex (1927): nos. 166-70 ; Orpheus (1947) ; Conclusions -- Octatonic "progressions". "Dominant-seventh" complexes -- The dominant-tonic relation. Octet (1923) ; Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) ; Symphony of Psalms (1930): First movement ; Symphony in Three Movements (1945) ; Oedipus Rex (1927): Act 1, nos. 27-45 -- The serial period. Change of life ; Agon (1953-1957) ; Canticum sacrum (1955) -- The serial period (II). The Flood (1962) ; Abraham and Isaac (1963) et al. ; A conclusion.

ISBN

• 0300026935
• 0300038844 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82002560^/MN

OCLC

• 8222638
• SCSB-10169493

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library