The Music of Stravinsky: Collected Essays
Pieter C. van den Toorn, "The Music of Stravinsky: Collected Essays"
English | ISBN: 9814968625 | 2023 | 514 pages | PDF | 37 MB
English | ISBN: 9814968625 | 2023 | 514 pages | PDF | 37 MB
The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinskymay have been the greatest as well. Stretching across forty or so years, the essays in this volume address the dynamics of Igor Stravinsky’s music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Underscored are the features of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form that would remain consistently a part of Stravinsky’s oeuvre regardless of the changes in orientation from the Russian period to the neoclassical and the early serial.
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