Screen LibraryStravinsky's ballets
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven London |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Yale music masterworks series |
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| Item Description: | Ballets. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 298 p.: ill., music ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780300118728 (cl : alk. paper) 0300118724 (cl : alk. paper) 9788300118724 (cl : alk. paper) 8300118721 (cl : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J655 |
| CLC: | J655.6(512) |
| Call Number: | J655.6(512)/J833 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p.[282]-286) and index. Foreword / by George B. Stauffer -- From St. Petersburg to Paris : the road to recognition -- The firebird : Diaghilev, Fokine, and Stravinsky -- Petrouchka : the piano and the puppet -- The rite of spring : gateway to modernism -- A new approach - a new collaboration : the pathway to Apollo -- America -- A counterpoint of minds : Agon -- Terpsichorean hybrids -- Dancing a legacy : Balanchine and beyond. 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 |