Stravinsky and the Russian Period : Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom.

Cover -- Stravinsky and the Russian Period -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Overview -- 1 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 -- 2 The octatonic scale -- Octatonic-diatonic interaction -- 3 A brief survey -- The Russian folk wedding -- The scenario -- Musical sources in Les Noces -- Renard (1915-16) -- The Soldier's Tale (1918) -- 4 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 -- 5 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 -- 6 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 -- 7 Allegro! Renard reconsidered -- Extra eighth-note beats -- Substructure -- Structure in the large -- Pitch relations -- Coda: the Royal March in The Soldier's Tale (1918) -- 8 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 -- 9 Issues of performance practice and aesthetic belief.

Expressive timing -- 10 Stravinsky and his critics -- T. W. Adorno -- Critical indictments -- Rebuttals -- Stravinsky the person -- Full cycle: Les Noces and The Rite of Spring revisited -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Van den Toorn and McGinness present a fresh assessment of the dynamics of Stravinsky's music from a variety of analytical and aesthetic angles. Tying analysis of the music to issues of aesthetics and performance, the book contains in-depth discussion of works including The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard.

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