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Stravinsky and the Russian period : sound and legacy of a musical idiom / Pieter C. van den Toorn, John McGinness.
| Author/creator | Van den Toorn, Pieter C., 1938- |
| Other author | McGinness, John, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
| Description | x, 324 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Music since 1900 Music since 1900. ^A1041670 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Meter and metrical displacement in Stravinsky. Meter and its definitions ; Metrical displacement in Stravinsky ; Displacement, location, and intensity ; Earlier examples of displacement ; The concept of metrical dissonance -- The octatonic scale. Octatonic-diatonic interaction -- A brief survey. The Russian folk wedding ; The scenario ; Musical sources in Les Noces ; Renard (1915-16) ; The Soldier's Tale (1918) -- Meter, motive, and alignment in Les Noces: Stravinsky's block and layered structures. Metrical displacement in the first tableau ; Block structures in the second tableau ; Layered structures in the second tableau ; Additional layered structures ; Conclusions -- Melody and harmony in Les Noces. Melody and the folk element ; Preliminary remarks, a Tonnetz for Les Noces ; Octatonic-diatonic interaction in the first and third tableaux ; Interactions in the fourth tableau ; Octatonic fever -- Meter, text, and alignment in Renard (1916): Stravinsky's 'rejoicing discovery'. Origins of displacement ; Pribaoutka ; The role of articulation in processes of metrical displacement: Stravinsky's slurs, beams, and accent markings -- Stravinsky contra Schoenberg -- Allegro! Renard reconsidered. Extra eighth-note beats ; Substructure ; Structure in the large ; Pitch relations ; Coda: the Royal March in The Soldier's Tale (1918) -- Melodic repeat structures in the music of Stravinsky, Debussy, and Rimsky-Korsakov: another look at the Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920). The conservative alternative ; Antecedents in the music of Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov ; Continuity and discontinuity -- Issues of performance practice and aesthetic belief. Expressive timing -- Stravinsky and his critics. T. W. Adorno ; Critical indictments ; Rebuttals ; Stravinsky the person ; Full cycle: Les Noces and The Rite of Spring revisited ; Conclusions. |
| Abstract | Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic belief and performance practice are seen as flowing directly from the musical invention. The book provides a counter-argument to the criticism and aesthetics of T. W. Adorno and Richard Taruskin, and will appeal to composers, critics and performers as well as scholars of Stravinsky's music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-311) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011049747 |
| ISBN | 9781107021006 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1107021006 (hardback) |