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Record Nr.

UNINA9910496145403321

Autore

Van den Toorn Pieter C. <1938->

Titolo

Stravinsky and the rite of spring : the beginnings of a musical language / / Pieter C. van den Toorn [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1987

ISBN

0-585-33183-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 221 p. ) : facsims., music ;

Disciplina

785.3/2/0924

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 215-217.

Nota di contenuto

Point of order -- Sketches, editions, and revisions. The sketchbook ; The revisions -- Stravinsky re-barred. Music criticism ; Les Noces (1914-23) ; Histoire du soldat (1918) ; "Evocation of the ancestors" ; "Sacrificial dance" ; A conclusion -- Rhythmic structure. Prototypes ; "Ritual of the rival tribes" ; "Procession of the sage" ; "Ritual of abduction" -- Pitch structure : a Russian heritage -- Part I : Pitch structure. Sketches for the "Augurs of spring" ; The octatonic pitch collection ; Preliminary survey ; The diatonic component ; The interval-5 cycle ; Summations -- Part II : Pitch structure. Introduction ; "Sacrificial dance" ; The pitch-class set ; Conclusions.