Stravinsky's Late Music
Author: Joseph N. Straus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-03-25
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521602884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period.
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Stravinsky
Author: Eric Walter White
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780520039858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the second edition of the definitive account of Igor Stravinsky's life and work, arranged in two separate sections, Eric Walter White revised the whole book, completing the biographical section by taking it up to Stravinsky's death in 1971. To the list of works, the author added some early pieces that have recently come to light, as well as the late compositions, including the Requiem Canticles and The Owl and the Pussycat. Four more of Stravinsky's own writings appear in the Appendices, and there are several important additions to the bibliography.
Stravinsky the Music-maker
Author: Hans Keller
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0907689698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHans Keller's text and Milein Cosman's vibrant illustrations combine to produce a unique and enlightening book on Stravinsky. Stravinsky the Music-Maker is the third incarnation of a book that has been greeted with superlatives on each previous appearance. Hans Keller and Milein Cosman collaborated down the decades of their married life, Keller'spen analysing music, Cosman's catching its makers at work. Stravinsky was a source of fascination for them both, and their Stravinsky at Rehearsal appeared in 1962, to be expanded, two decades later, as Stravinsky Seen and Heard. Stravinsky the Music-Maker offers the most generous compilation of their work yet: it includes Keller's complete articles on Stravinsky, written between 1954 and 1980, and augments Cosman's celebrated prints and drawings with a number not previously published. The introduction, by the composer Hugh Wood, sites the Keller-Cosman partnership in the framework of the British musical life they enriched. HANS KELLER (1919-85) fled Austria in1938 and became a commanding critical voice in British music journalism and on the BBC from the end of the war until his death. He is the author of numerous books, many illustrated by his wife Milein Cosman, including Criticism (Faber), The Great Haydn String Quartets (Dent), Essays on Music (CUP), Jerusalem Diary, Film Music and Beyond and Music and Psychology (all Plumbago). A critic of insight and integrity throughout his life, he remains a powerful influence to this day.
Form and Tonality in the Late Music of Igor Stravinsky
Author: Theodore Henry Mann
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Music of Stravinsky
Author: Stephen Walsh
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780198163756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a critical survey of Stravinsky's entire output in chronological order, from an authoritative and lucid guide.
Poetics Of Music In The Form Of Six Lessons
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2011-10-12
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1447493095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Stravinsky's Piano
Author: Graham Griffiths
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0521191785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky's use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.
Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1970-02-26
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 0674678567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.
Conversations with Igor Stravinsky
Author: Robert Craft
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 0571308791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConversations with Igor Stravinsky is the first of the celebrated series of conversation books in which Stravinsky, prompted by Robert Craft, reviewed his long and remarkable life. The composer brings the Imperial Russia of his childhood vividly into focus, at the same time scanning what were at the time the brave new horizons of Boulez and Stockhausen with extraordinary acuity. Stravinsky answers searching questions about his musical development and recalls his association with Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet. There are sympathetic and extraordinarily illuminating reminiscences of such composers as Debussy and Ravel ('the only musicians who immediately understood Le Sacre du Printemps'), while mischievous squibs are directed at others, most notably perhaps against Richard Strauss, all of whose operas Stravinsky wished 'to admit ... to whichever purgatory punishes triumphant banality'. The conversations are by no means confined to musical subjects, ranging uninhibitedly across all the arts: Stravinsky gives unforgettable sketches of Ibsen, Rodin, Proust, Giacometti, Dylan Thomas and T S Eliot. 'The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history. The penetration of Craft's questions and the patience and detail of Stravinsky's answers combine to produce an intimate picture of a man who has sometimes puzzled, often delighted, and always intrigued ...' The Sunday Times
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Author: Peter Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-11-23
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780521627146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rite of Spring is Stravinsky's most revolutionary work. This important new book provides a comprehensive guide to the work, telling in vivid detail the story of its inception and composition, of the stormy rehearsals which led to the scandalous premiere on 29 May 1913, and of Stravinsky's later betrayal of the ballet's first choreographer, Vaslav Nijinsky. At the same time, in a radical reassessment of the work's musical values, Peter Hill probes beneath the surface of the music to reveal an architectural conception of unsuspected guile and subtlety. A feature of the book is a detailed discussion of the work in performance, drawing on recordings by the Rite's greatest interpreters, Stravinsky himself included. Finally, the significance of the Rite is thoroughly reviewed in a hard-hitting conclusion which poses a radical challenge to the orthodox view of the work.
