The Apollonian Clockwork
On Stravinsky
Published in December 1989
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-19-315461-2 (ISBN)
Description
A study of Stravinsky illustrated with many musical examples which explores his musical thought and argues that the familiar division of the composer's work into various periods, such as "Russian" and "neo-classical", more often obscures rather than clarifies the music.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
33 half tones, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
823 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-315461-2 (9780193154612)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1: the new renewed; 1966 - "Requiem Canticles"; America on Sunday; ars imitatio artis; no copyright problem here; 1919 - "La Marseillaise"; a motto; ordeals of the memory; forma formans; zoonology; 1947 - "Orpheus". Part 2: Purcell, Pergolesi and the others; concocted reality; the inverted metaphor; the utopian unison; "Poetique Musicale"; on influence; 1952 - "Cantata"; "Philosophie der neuen Musik"; 1955 - "Greeting Prelude"; New York - Robert Craft and Vera Stravinsky; 1943 - "Ode". Part 3: Monsieur, le pauvre Satie; ragtime; 1921 - "Les cinq doigts"; 1917 - "Les Noces" ("Svadebka"); on montage technique; a kind of Brecht; 1918 - "L'Histoire du Soldat"; on authenticating and on making current; ostinato basses; a visit to Lake Geneva; id est - hermetic music. Part 4: Stravinsky; 1957 - "Agon"; the world, a comedy; "...I sing my song"; the metamorphosis of Misha; octotony; the firebird as magpie; 1912 - "Le Roi des Etoiles" ("Zvezdoliki"); the tradition of the new; spirit in the bottle of Cologne; a photomontage. Part 5: 1951 - "The Rake's Progress".