Stravinsky
Subtitle: The Rite of Spring (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780521622219
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Vesna svÃ«iÃ¬ashchennaÃ«iÃ¬a; Music Of The 19th Century; Symphonic Music; Music/Songbooks; Vesna sviashchennaia; Music; Genres & Styles - Classical; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; Stravinsky, Igor,--1882-1971.--Vesna svëiìashchennaëiìa; General; 1882-1971; 1882-1971; Stravinsky, Igor,; Vesna svëiìashchennaëiìa
First sentence: The idea of Le Sacre du printemps came to me while I was still composing The Firebird.
Description: "This book provides a comprehensive guide to the work, telling in vivid detail the story of its inception and composition, of the stormy rehearsals which led to the scandalous premiere on 29 May 1913, and of Stravinsky's later betrayal of the ballet's first choreographer, Vaslav Nijinsky. At the same time, in a reassessment of the work's musical values, Peter Hill probes beneath the surface of the music to reveal an architectural conception of unsuspected guile and subtlety. A feature of the book is a detailed discussion of the work in performance, drawing on recordings by the Rite's greatest interpreters, Stravinsky himself included.

Finally, the significance of the Rite is thoroughly reviewed in a conclusion which poses a radical challenge to the orthodox view of the work."--Jacket.