Title: Stravinsky;
Authors: Vlad, Roman, 1919-; Fuller, Frederick; Fuller, Ann.
Publisher: Oxford U.P.,
Year: 1967
Subjects: Stravinsky, Igor,
Abstract: This critical study, by a leading authority on twentieth-century music, surveys the whole of Stravinsky's career from his earliest commpositions to those written in his final years. For this edition, the text has been completely revised and many points supplemented and expanded. A new chapter has been added which deals with the composer's final works and his thinking toward the end of his life.
Contents: Foreword -- Introductory -- Stravinsky and Diaghilev -- The king of the stars -- The rite of spring -- The vocal works of the Russian period -- The nightingale -- Return to the spirit of chamber music -- Chamber works for the theatre -- The end of the Russian period -- Neo-classicism -- The piano works of the neo-classical period -- The neo-classical ballets -- The dramatic works on classical subjects -- Works in concerto form -- The music of the American period -- Return to the symphonic form -- Stravinsky's religious music -- Culmination and end of neo-classicism: the rake's progress -- Towards twelve-note music -- Threni: Stravinsky's first completely twelve-note work -- Works written by Stravinsky between 1959 and 1966 -- Bibliography -- General index -- Index of Stravinsky's works.