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Stravinsky & The Rite of Spring

New Elements of the Musical Style

Emancipation of Dissonance

- Dissonance is employed a lot more in twentieth-century music

- Use of linear texture and dissonant counterpoint

Orchestration

- Attention on penetrating wind instruments and "dark" instruments

- Emphasis on rhythms and percussion

New Conceptions of Form

The Twelve-Tone Method

- Many older forms such as toccata, fugue, concerto grosso, and suite were revived. They also retained the traditional symphony, sonata, and concerto.

Rhythm

-Schoenberg founded a method called serialism

- Tone row forms: transposed, inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion

  • rhythmic meter that consisted of duple, triple and quadruple meter was discarded
  • incorporate odd numbers; five, seven or thirteen beats

Melody

  • the twentieth century, melodies were dissonant and had wide leaps

Harmony

New Conceptions of Tonality

  • polychords were used often, combination of two or more chord on to of the other
  • combining the sixth and the seventh notes to the basic 1-3-5 chord

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- The four principle paths: tonality, polytonality, atonality, and twelve-tone music

- Use of polytonality

- Atonal Music

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New Trends in Art

His Life

Expressionism

  • response to the apprehension about the conflicting human relationship with the world and the loss of spirituality
  • a response to the French Impressionism
  • The expressionism phase approximately lasted from 1905 to 1920

- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

- Worked with Serge Diaghilev (the legendary impresario of the Paris-based Russian Ballet) on The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring

His Style

- Stravinsky and his family took refuge in Switzerland during the outbreak of war in 1914

The Early Twentieth Century

- Performed throughout Europe showcasing his own music as pianist and conductor

  • art during this era was characterized by distortion and the exaggeration of strong colors to entice anxiety and other emotions
  • expressionism in music was characterized by the wide leaps in the melody accompanied with the hyper expressive melodic ideas.
  • the second Viennese school was comprised by Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils

· Stravinsky’s musical style evolved constantly throughout his career, from the post-Impressionism of The Firebird  and the primitivism of The Rite of Spring to the controlled classicism of his matured style and  to the serialism of his later works

- He decided to settle in California (outside of Los Angeles) when World War II broke out

· Stravinsky was one of the leaders in the revitalization of rhythm in European art music

Serge Diaghilev

- Stravinsky then became the world’s most celebrated figure of the 20th century music through his concert tours around the world during his later years

· Nationalism dominates his earlier works such as The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring ( The Rite of Spring is about the sacrificial rituals of ancient Russia)

· During the first world war, Stravinsky composed Soldier’s tale, which was more economic in style

Neoclassicism

  • made to close the doors on the ideas of futurism and joining of music, art and poetry
  • these composers preferred Absolute music over Programme music

Atonal: written without a tonal center or a key.

Stravinsky & The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring

Dissonance: tension between musical notes due to the disharmonious elements

Response to Romanticism

  • Written in 1913
  • The ballet was choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky
  • “I saw in my imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watching a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the God of Spring.” - Stravinsky
  • composers tried to restrain and subdue romanticism
  • inspired by the primitive life
  • rising interest in the non-Western rhythms

The Rite of Spring:

- Introduction

- Dance of the Youths and Maidens

- Game of Abduction

Please turn to pg 493 and follow the listening guide

  • this piece includes eight French horn parts, five Trumpets and five parts in each woodwind section.
  • new style of musical language using dissonance, polyrhythms and polytonality

Polytonality: using more than one key at once

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