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Stravinsky's Ballets

Yale Music Masterworks

By (author) Charles M. Joseph
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Yale University Press, United States
Published: 30th Nov 2011
Dimensions: w 165mm h 235mm d 3mm
Weight: 703g
ISBN-10: 0300118724
ISBN-13: 9780300118728
Barcode No: 9780300118728
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Synopsis
Igor Stravinsky, a towering composer of the twentieth century, was closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes-The Firebird, Petrouchka, and The Rite of Spring-put him on the international map and propelled both ballet and music into the modern age. Even so, these brilliant pieces were but a prelude to Stravinsky's lifelong exploration of dance and dance idioms, as Charles M. Joseph convincingly demonstrates in this penetrating survey of all of the composer's ballet music. Joseph provides superb analyses of each of Stravinsky's ballet pieces, examining the composer's own drafts, notes, and sketches to discover how he conceived of and developed each work. The book also explores how Stravinsky's unorthodox new music energized colleagues, among them George Balanchine, and attracted a glittering array of artists including Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav Nijinski, Picasso, and Jean Cocteau. Joseph creates an intense, intimate portrait of Stravinsky and offers a fresh perspective on the musical revolutionary who changed the definition of music made for dance.

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"This excellent source offers a unique approach to analysis of ballet, recording its history-as seen through the life and work of Stravinsky-and reflecting the impact of Russian culture on ballet and music of the 20th century. With its 33 pages of endnotes and 4-page bibliography of primary sources, this book is a scholarly delight."-C.T. Bond, Choice -- C.T. Bond * Choice *