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  title info:
    title: Building blocks
    sub title: repetition and continuity in the music of Stravinsky
  name:
    name part: Horlacher, Gretchen Grace.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: ©2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations, music
  abstract: A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the twentieth century to achieve an entirely new and truly modern aesthetic. Striking a remarkable concurrence of stasis and discontinuity, Stravinsky crafted large-scale compositions out of short repeating melodies, juxtaposed these primary motives with contrasting and varying fragments, and layered on fixed ostinati which repeated at their own rates throughout the piece. Previous scholarship on Stravinsky focuses on the disparate and independent nature of such textures, conceiving them as separated and deadlocked, unable to escape their repetitions, and having no goal. This connects Stravinsky's procedures with the more radical music of subsequent composers for whom disconnection has served as a primary aesthetic. Yet, from the perspective of his later works, the static and discontinuous depictions of Stravinsky's music seem incomplete and perhaps even simplistic. The "building blocks" of his novel textures often consist of tunes with identifiable intervallic shapes, goal pitches, and defining durational patterns-organizations that engender continuity and connection. In other words, although its basic materials are combined into new, often dissonant and usually repetitive textures, those materials still originate in, and depend upon, traditional concepts of melody, harmony, and pulsation. Presenting an innovative analytical model for Stravinsky's compositions, Building Blocks seeks a fuller perspective, and enables a fresh, insightful approach to this music and the theoretical constructs behind it. Author Gretchen Horlacher portrays the whole of Stravinsky's repertoire as radical or modern not because it eschews continuity and connection, but because it places them in relation to their opposites: the music holds our interest because undeniable references toward continuity are dynamical…
  table of contents: The first movement of Three pieces for string quartet : a shaking and cracking of dancing bones -- Connecting the blocks -- Stravinsky's stutter -- Multiple melodies : Stravinsky's superimpositions -- A sounding together : ordered succession across the Symphonies of wind instruments.
  note: Gretchen G. Horlacher.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stravinsky, Igor
      name part: 1882-1971
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Stravinsky, Igor
      name part: 1882-1971
  subject:
    topic: Musical analysis
  subject:
    topic: Analyse musicale
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC
    topic: Genres & Styles
    topic: Classical
  subject:
    topic: MUSIC
    topic: Reference
  subject:
    topic: Musical analysis
  classification: ML410.S932 H68 2011
  classification: 780.92
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    title info:
      title: Building blocks
    name:
      name part: Horlacher, Gretchen Grace.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011
    identifier: (DLC) 2009049401
    identifier: (OCoLC)468857693
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  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171025
    record change date: 20260319164322.7
    record identifier: in00005715220
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng