Stravinsky, God, and Time.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (372 pages)
- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Series ; v.59 .
- Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Series .
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables and Illustrations -- Notes on Previously Published Material -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 The Stravinsky Legacy? -- 1 'Time' for a New Legacy? -- Chapter 2 Being and Time: A Nightingale Sings … -- 1 Stravinsky's Spirituality … -- 2 … and Musical Inheritance -- 3 Temporality in Znamenny Chant -- 4 Resonance -- 5 Le Rossignol (1908-14) -- Chapter 3 From Now to Eternity -- 1 Petrushka (1911) -- 2 Zvezdoliki (1911) -- 2.1 Stravinsky and the Old Believers -- 2.2 Time Qualities in Zvezdoliki -- Chapter 4 A Russian Spring -- 1 Time as a Mental Construct -- 2 The Rite of Spring -- 3 Time Qualities in The Rite of Spring -- Chapter 5 A Japanese Spring -- Chapter 6 Heaven and Earth -- 1 The 025 Motif and Changing Time Qualities -- Chapter 7 New Patterns for Old -- 1 Cortical Patterning -- 2 Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914) -- 3 Chant Dissident (1919) -- 4 Pulcinella (1919-20) -- 5 Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920) and Cubism -- 6 Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920): Temporal Form -- 7 Time and Form: Jacques Maritain -- Chapter 8 Time for Pushkin -- Chapter 9 The Object Is Time -- 1 Mental Imaging -- 2 Octet (1923) -- 3 Oedipus Rex (1926) -- 4 Apollo (1928) -- 5 Lourié's Understanding of Stravinsky -- Chapter 10 A Journey to Hyperspace -- 1 1st Movement -- 2 2nd Movement -- 3 3rd Movement -- 4 Music as a Higher Brain Function -- Chapter 11 Faith Matters -- 1 Pater Noster (1926) -- 2 Russian Credo (1932) -- 3 Ave Maria (1934) -- 4 Tests of Faith -- 5 Perséphone (1933) -- 6 Darker Times -- 7 Babel (1944) -- 8 Mass (1944-48) -- 8.1 Kyrie -- 8.2 Gloria -- 8.3 Credo -- 8.4 Sanctus -- 8.5 Agnus Dei -- 9 The Poetics of Stravinsky and Maritain -- Chapter 12 A Matter of Time -- Chapter 13 Stravinsky, Schoenberg and God -- 1 Belief in Divine Authority. 2 Belief in the Hebrew God -- 3 Belief in Biblical Mythology -- 4 Belief in Catholic Culture -- 5 Devotion to The Word -- 6 Synthesis -- Chapter 14 New Wine -- 1 Cantata (1952) -- 2 Stravinsky, Webern and God -- 3 Canticum Sacrum (1955) -- 4 Threni (1958) -- 4.1 De Elegia Prima -- 4.2 De Elegia Tertia -- 4.3 De Elegia Quinta -- Chapter 15 Late Harvest -- 1 A Sermon, A Narrative and A Prayer (1961) -- 1.1 A Sermon -- 1.2 A Narrative -- 1.3 A Prayer -- 2 Two Bible Stories: The Flood (1962) and Abraham and Isaac (1963) -- 3 The Flood (1962) -- 4 Abraham and Isaac (1962-3) -- 5 Requiem Canticles (1966) -- 5.1 Prelude -- 5.2 Exaudi -- 5.3 Dies Irae -- 5.4 Tuba Mirum -- 5.5 Interlude -- 5.6 Rex Tremendae -- 5.7 Lacrimosa -- 5.8 Libera Me -- 5.9 Postlude -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 Victor Ivanovitch Nesmelov: The Science of Man -- Appendix 2 Gisèle Brelet -- Bibliography -- Index.
This ground-breaking study of Stravinsky's spirituality presents a new view of his music as unified, challenging the current view which describes it as often discontinuous and static. Stravinsky's spirituality is the origin of his radical restoration of time in music.
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Stravinsky, Igor,-1882-1971-Criticism and interpretation. Stravinsky, Igor,-1882-1971-Religion. Music-20th century-History and criticism. Sacred music-20th century-History and criticism. Time in music.