The Rite of spring at 100 /
When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today, it is considered one of the most influential musical works of t...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Musical meaning and interpretation.
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Table of Contents:
- Introductory essay : Stravinsky's Russia and the politics of cultural ferment / Donald J. Raleigh
- A century of Rites : the making of an avant-garde tradition / Lynn Garafola
- The rite of spring as a dance : recent re-visions / Stephanie Jordan
- Re-sourcing Nijinsky : The rite of spring and Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical / Gabriele Brandstetter
- Death by dancing in Nijinsky's Rite / Millicent Hodson
- Le sacre du printemps : a ballet for Paris / Annegret Fauser
- Styling Le sacre : The rite's role in French fashion / Mary E. Davis
- The rite of spring, national narratives, and estrangement / Brigid Cohen
- Formalizing a "purely acoustic" musical objectivity : another look at a 1915 interview with Stravinsky / William Robin
- Racism at The rite / Tamar Levitz
- Commentary and observations on Le sacre in Russia : an overview / Kevin Bartig
- Stravinsky, Roerich, and Old Slavic rituals in The rite of spring / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti
- Orchestral sketches of Le sacre du printemps in the National Library of Russia / Natalia Braginskaya
- Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov : his analytical comments of The rite of spring / Grigory Lyzhov
- Leonard Bernstein's 1959 triumph in the Soviet Union / Olga Manulkina
- The rite of spring in Russia / Svetlana Savenko
- "I penetrated the mystery of the spring lapidary rhythms" : Baroque topoi in The rite of spring / Elena Vereshchagina
- "The great sacrifice" : contextualizing the dream / Tatiana Vereshchagina
- An interview with composer Vladimir Tarnopolski / edited and with an introductory note by Christy Keele and John Reef
- The physicality of The rite : remarks on the forces of meter and their disruption / Pieter C. van den Toorn
- How not to hear Le sacre du printemps? Schoenberg's theories, Leibowitz's recording / Severine Neff
- Rethinking blocks and superimposition : form in the "ritual of the two rival tribes" / Gretchen Horlacher
- Stravinsky at the crossroads after The rite : "Jeu de rossignol mâecanique" (Performance of the mechanical nightingale) (1 August 1913) / Maureen Carr
- Dissonant bells : The rite's "sacrificial dance" 1913/2013 / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
- Revisiting The rite in Stravinsky's later serial music / Lynne Rogers
- Dionysos Monometrikos / Stephen Walsh
- Plenary essay : resisting the rite / Richard Taruskin.