| Contents |
Introduction. Issues in Stravinsky research -- Russian background. Igor Stravinsky and Russian preliterate theater / Simon Karlinsky -- From subject to style: Stravinsky and the painters / Richard Taruskin -- Stravinsky and Prokofiev: sizing up the competition / Malcolm Hamrick Brown -- Dance, theater, and collaboration. Music and spectacle in Petrushka and The Rite of Spring / Jann Pasler -- The devil's dance: Stravinsky's corporal imagination / Roger Shattuck -- Set designing for Stravinsky / David Hockney -- Theoretical perspectives. Harmonic syntax and voice leading in Stravinsky's early music / Allen Forte -- Octatonic pitch structure in Stravinsky / Pieter C. van den Toorn -- Writing The Rite right / Louis Cyr -- Discontinuity and proportion in the music of Stravinsky / Jonathan D. Kramer -- Aspects of the religious music of Igor Stravinsky / Gilbert Amy -- The utopian unison / Elmer Schonberger and Louis Andriessen -- Compositional practices in the late music. The canon and Stravinsky's late style / Glenn Watkins -- Order, symmetry, and centricity in late Stravinsky / Milton Babbitt -- On the significance of Stravinsky's last works / Charles Wuorinen and Jeffrey Kresky -- Currents and contemporaries. Three Japanese Lyrics and Japonisme / Takashi Funayama -- Stravinsky and the pianola / Rex Lawson -- Stravinsky, Dushkin, and the violin / Boris Schwarz -- Schoenberg and 'Kleine Modernsky' / Leonard Stein -- Personal portraits from the California years. The genius and the goddess / Edwin Allen -- Stravinsky at home / Lawrence Morton -- Appendix. Selected source material from "A catalogue of books and music inscribed to and/or autographed and annotated by Igor Stravinsky" / compiled and annotated by Robert Craft. |
| Abstract |
This book grew out of the International Stravinsky Symposium and the papers commissioned for it. The participants' new insights fall into three broad categories. First, there are those of a general nature that shed light on some of the central aesthetic issues of our time, as reflected in Stravinsky's music. Second, there are those that lead to a more precise understanding of the different periods of Stravinsky's career and the forces operating within them. Third, there are those that reveal threads of continuity that permeate Stravinsky's entire oeuvre. |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-357) and index. |
| LCCN | 85008426 |
| ISBN | 0520054032 (alk. paper) |
