Rite of Spring in Full Score
A reprint of the original full-score edition of the most famous musical work of the 20th century, created as a ballet score for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism. In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a speaker. Invited to deliver the prestigious Norton Lectures, he had departed Europe just days after the outbreak of war, leaving behind not only a growing political maelstrom but also his life in France, where his wife, eldest daughter, and mother all had died in the previous year. Poetics of Music offers a snapshot of this pivotal moment in the composer’s biography and career. Delivered at the height of his neoclassical period, which blended the sculptural precision of classicism with distinctively twentieth-century cadences, Stravinsky’s lectures explore both the creative potential and the constraints of tradition. Though he achieved artistic immortality as a genre-defying experimentalist who scandalized audiences in Belle Époque Paris, the
An Autobiography
An Autobiography
Petrushka in Full Score: Original Version
Definitive original edition of the 20th-century classic: Stravinsky's score for the Ballets Russes masterpiece 'Petrushka, ' the bizarre tale of three dancing puppets brought to life. First produced in Paris in 1911. The finest inexpensive edition available. Includes an English translation of the stage directions and preliminary matter and a detailed new Table of Contents.
An Autobiography
An Autobiography
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Musikalisk Poetik
Igor Stravinskij är 1900-talets musikaliska portalfigur, nydanare och klassiker. I denna bok baserad på en serie föreläsningar vid Harvarduniversitetet skriver han om det musikaliska skapandet. Om musikens element och former, om musikalisk komposition och om det musikaliska framförandet. Stravinskijs stil också som författare är livfull och klar. I Musikalisk poetik ger han inblickar i sin egen musikaliska värld och förmedlar väsentlig kunskap om den konstnärliga kreativitetens villkor. Företal av Darius Milhaud.Cantus firmus är en serie med texter om musik, musikestetik och musikanalys. I serien har tidigare utgivits: Paul Hindemith: Johann Sebastian Bach ett förpliktande arv Anton Webern: Vägen till den nya musiken
