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After the Rite : Stravinsky's path to neoclassicism (1914-1925) /

Title:
After the Rite : Stravinsky's path to neoclassicism (1914-1925) /
Author:
Carr, Maureen A., author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
The emergence of Stravinsky's neoclassicism : the aesthetic underpinnings of the idea in the other arts and in recent social/political history. 1914 : Literature, art, music, and dance ; 1917 : Revolution in the arts : Burliuk's neomorphism and Stravinsky's neoclassicism ; 1920-25 : style and technique ; Commentaries by Stravinsky and others that help to define his neoclassical aesthetic ; Postlude : the classicism of models -- Stravinsky at the crossroads after the Rite. Jeu de rossignol mécanique (Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale) (1 August 1913) ; Trois pièces pour quatour à cordes, II (Three pieces for string quartet, II) ; Trois pièces faciles (Kl 4 hdg) (Three easy pieces) (4 hands), "Marche" (December 19, 1914) ; Postlude -- Stravinsky at the crossroads between primitivism and neoclassicism : Renard (Bajka) (1915-1916) and Histoire du soldat (1917-18). Original French text of Renard ; Original French text of Histoire du soldat -- Stravinsky's improvisatory style. The predictive qualities of the Étude pour pianola (1917) ; Stravinsky's appropriation of the "rag idiom" (1917) ; Stravinsky completes three works that were inspired by elements of ragtime (1918) ; The order in which the works of 1918 were completed ; The reception of these works in 1919 ; The two faces of Stravinsky's Piano-rag-music (1919) : portrait or collage? ; Stravinsky's path to abstraction : an interruption on his journey to neoclassicism -- Stravinsky's compositional process for two works completed in 1920 : Concertino and Symphonies d'instruments à vent. Order and chaos in Stravinsky's Concertino for string quartet (1920) ; Symphonies d'instruments à vent (191?-20) -- Pulcinella (1919-20), Les cinq doigts "Larghetto" (1921), and Mavra (1921-22). Pulcinella (1919-20) ; Les cinq doigts (1921) : "Larghetto" (January 31, 1921) ; Mavra (1921-22) -- Octet (1919-23), Cinq pieces monométriques (frags. 192?), Concerto for piano and winds (1923-24). Introduction ; Concerto pour piano suivi d'orchestra d'harmonie (Concerto for piano and winds) (1923-24) ; Conclusion -- Piano sonata (1924) and Serenade in A (1925). Piano sonata (1924) : vestiges of Classical sonata form are evident, even though Stravinsky claims to have avoided such restrictions ; Serenade in A for piano (1925) ; Conclusion -- Epilogue. The evolution of Stravinsky's creative genius.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
MT92.S88 C27 2014 – Available