Title: Avatar of modernity :
Authors: Mosch, Ulrich,; Meyer, Felix,; Danuser, Hermann,; Zimmermann, Heidy,; Stravinsky, Igor,; Stravinsky, Igor,; Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland)
Date: 2013
Publisher: Paul Sacher Foundation ;
Physical description: 501 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm 1 score (146 pages) : facsimiles (color) ; 47 cm 1 score (118 pages) : facsimiles (color) ; 32 x 38 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Multifarious rites of passage, an introduction / Hermann Danuser and Heidy Zimmermann -- I. A team's work. Multifarious rites of passage, an introduction / Hermann Danuser and Heidy Zimmermann ; Diaghilev's Ballets russes : a new kind of company / Lynn Garafola ; The shaman, the sage, and the sacrificial victim, and Nicholas Roerich's part in all / Paul Griffiths and Edmund Griffiths ; The scandal at Le sacre : games of distinction and dreams of barbarism / Esteban Buch -- II. Revolutionary potential. "...de la musique sauvage avec tout le confort moderne!" : the orchestral design of Le sacre du printemps / Tobias Bleek ; Disrupted structures : rhythm, melody, harmony / Andreas Meyer ; "...retrouver la source de variété..." : Nijinsky's choreographic textures / Claudia Jeschke -- III. Reflections on and of Le sacre. Remembering The rite of spring, or, "Ce que je n'ai pas voulu exprimer dans Le sacre du printemps" / Stephen Walsh ; Everyone's Rite (1939-1946) / David Schiff ; Rewriting The rite : creative responses to Le sacre du printemps / Jonathan Cross -- IV. Toward histories of interpretation. Le sacre du printemps : milestones in dance / Stephanie Jordan ; Vesna svyashchennaya in its homeland : reception of The rite in Russia and the Soviet Union / Svetlana Savenko ; "sim not dim" : exécution and interprétation in recordings of The rite since 1929 / Arne Stollberg ; Le sacre analyzed / Jonathan W. Bernard ; Boulez's Rite / Robert Piencikowksi -- V. Cultural, historical, and musical contexts. The cultural memory of Le sacre du printemps / Jan Assmann ; Mythic sacrifices and real corpses : Le sacre du printemps and the Great War / Herfried Münkler ; Kingdom of mystery : the artistic ideas of Nicholas Roerich / John E. Bowlt ; How The rite became possible / Richard Taruskin.
Notes: Volume of essays, facsimile of the holograph score for orchestra, and the facsimile of the holograph score for piano, 4 hands. Title from title page verso of book.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ballets--2-piano scores.; Ballets--History and criticism.; Ballets--Scores.; Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.; Piano music (4 hands), Arranged--Scores.; Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Criticism and interpretation.; Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.; Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Vesna svi︠a︡shchennai︠a︡.