When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as distinguished music and dance scholars discuss the meaning of the work and its far-reaching influence on world music, performance, and culture. Essays explore four key facets of the ballet: its choreography and movement; the cultural and historical contexts of its performance and reception in France; its structure and use of innovative rhythmic and tonal features; and the reception of the work in Russian music history and theory.

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Information

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Year

2017

ISBN

9780253027351

Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Music

Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Audiovisual Materials
Foreword: A Total Artwork: Memorable Resonances and Reverberations in The Rite
Acknowledgments
Editorial Notes
Introductory Essay: Stravinsky’s Russia and the Politics of Cultural Ferment
Part I: Dancing Le sacre across the Century
Part II: Le sacre and Stravinsky in France
Part III: Observations on Le sacre in Russia
Part IV: The Sounds of Le sacre
Bibliography / Compiled
List of Contributors
General Index
Index of Composers and Their Works
Index of Choreographers