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Stravinsky and the Russian Period VandenToornandMcGinnesstakeafreshlookatthedynamicsofStravinsky’s musicalstyle,fromavarietyofanalytical,critical,andaestheticangles.Starting withprocessesofjuxtapositionandstratification,thebookoffersanin-depth analysisofworkssuchasTheRiteofSpring,LesNoces,andRenard.Characteristic featuresofstyle,melody,andharmonyaretracedtorhythmicforces,including thoseofmetricaldisplacement.AlongwithStravinsky’sformalistaesthetics,the strictperformingstylehefavoredisalsotracedtorhythmicfactors,thusreversing thedirectionofthetraditionalcausalrelationship.Here,aestheticbeliefand performancepracticeareseenasflowingdirectlyfromthemusicalinvention. Thebookprovidesacounter-argumenttothecriticismandaestheticsof T.W.AdornoandRichardTaruskin,andwillappealtocomposers,critics,and performersaswellasscholarsofStravinsky’smusic. PIETER C. VAN DEN TOORN isProfessorofMusicattheUniversityofCaliforniaat SantaBarbara.HeistheauthorofTheMusicofIgorStravinsky(1983),Stravinsky and“TheRiteofSpring”(1987),andMusic,Politics,andtheAcademy(1995). Stravinskyand“TheRiteofSpring”wontheDeemsTaylorAward(1989)andthe OutstandingPublicationAwardoftheSocietyforMusicTheory(1990). JOHNMCGINNESSisanAssociateProfessorofMusicTheoryattheCraneSchoolof Music,StateUniversityofNewYorkatPotsdam.Hisessaysandarticleson topicsincludingthemusicofDebussy,Stravinsky,andIveshaveappearedinThe MusicalQuarterly,MusicTheorySpectrum,andCahiersDebussy,amongother publications.Asapianistspecializingincontemporarymusic,hehaspremiered morethantwenty-fivenewworksandhasrecordedforCRSandRadioNederland. Music Since 1900 general editor ArnoldWhittall Thisseries–formerlyMusicintheTwentiethCentury–offersawideperspectiveon musicandmusicallifesincetheendofthenineteenthcentury.Booksincluded rangefromhistoricalandbiographicalstudiesconcentratingparticularlyonthe contextandcircumstancesinwhichcomposerswerewriting,toanalyticaland criticalstudiesconcernedwiththenatureofmusicallanguageandquestionsof compositionalprocess.Theimportancegiventocontextwillalsobereflectedin studiesdealingwith,forexample,thepatronage,publishing,andpromotionofnew music,andinaccountsofthemusicallifeofparticularcountries. Titlesintheseries JonathanCross TheStravinskyLegacy MichaelNyman ExperimentalMusic:CageandBeyond JenniferDoctor TheBBCandUltra-ModernMusic,1922–1936 RobertAdlington TheMusicofHarrisonBirtwistle KeithPotter FourMusicalMinimalists:LaMonteYoung,TerryRiley,SteveReich,PhilipGlass CarloCaballero FauréandFrenchMusicalAesthetics PeterBurt TheMusicofToruTakemitsu DavidClarke TheMusicandThoughtofMichaelTippett:ModernTimesandMetaphysics M.J.Grant SerialMusic,SerialAesthetics:CompositionalTheoryinPost-WarEurope PhilipRupprecht Britten’sMusicalLanguage MarkCarroll MusicandIdeologyinColdWarEurope AdrianThomas PolishMusicsinceSzymanowski J.P.E.Harper-Scott EdwardElgar,Modernist YayoiUnoEverett TheMusicofLouisAndriessen EthanHaimo Schoenberg’sTransformationofMusicalLanguage RachelBecklesWillson Ligeti,Kurtág,andHungarianMusicduringtheColdWar MichaelCherlin Schoenberg’sMusicalImagination JosephN.Straus Twelve-ToneMusicinAmerica DavidMetzer MusicalModernismattheTurnoftheTwenty-FirstCentury EdwardCampbell Boulez,MusicandPhilosophy JonathanGoldman TheMusicalLanguageofPierreBoulez:WritingsandCompositions PieterC.vandenToornandJohnMcGinness StravinskyandtheRussianPeriod:SoundandLegacyofaMusicalIdiom Stravinsky and the Russian Period: Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom Pieter C. van den Toorn John McGinness CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107021006 ©PieterC.vandenToornandJohnMcGinness2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,Cambridge AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata VandenToorn,PieterC.,1938- StravinskyandtheRussianperiod:soundandlegacyofamusicalidiom/PieterC.van denToorn,JohnMcGinness. p. cm.–(Musicsince1900) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN978-1-107-02100-6 1. Stravinsky,Igor,1882-1971–Criticismandinterpretation. I. McGinness,John. II. Title. ML410.S932V39 2012 780.92–dc23 2011049747 ISBN978-1-107-02100-6Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. To Henry Mishkin, Nadia Boulanger, Joseph Kerman, John Baron, Allen Forte, and Lilian Kallir And to Richard Taruskin, PA, PP

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