Multiple Masks
Subtitle: Neoclassicism in Stravinsky's Works on Greek Subjects
Edition: Illustrated edition
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: January 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780803214767
Subjects: 20th century music; Composers & musicians; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Music Of The 20th Century; Music; Music/Songbooks; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music / General; Orpheus; Stravinsky, Igor; History & Criticism - General; 1882-1971; Analysis, appreciation; Apollon musagete; Dramatic Music; Mythology, Greek, in music; Neoclassicism (Music); Oedipus Rex; Persephone; Stravinsky, Igor,
Description: "In Multiple Masks, Maureen A. Carr studies Igor Stravinsky's creative process for Oedipus Rex, Apollo, Persephone, and Orpheus through his musical sketches and other documents - scenarios, librettos, correspondence, reviews, and philosophical commentaries, as well as previously uncited sources for Stravinsky's book Poetics of Music. A clear explanation of Stravinsky's compositional techniques within a broad cultural context emerges for each of these four significant works.

Carr concludes that Stravinsky used Greek myths as filters for certain poetic ideas and musical techniques that he developed in his earlier works. At the same time the mythological story lines provided him with the objective stance that he was seeking in these neoclassical works."--BOOK JACKET.