The Rite of Spring at 100

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Winner, Ruth A. Solie Award, American Musicological Society

The audiovisual materials that accompany this work can be found at https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/3f462p52g.

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. This version also includes audio and visual supplements designed to enhance understanding of this classic piece.

List of Audio-Visual Materials
Foreword: A Total Art-Work: Memorable Resonances and Reverberations in The Rite / Stephen Walsh
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration

Introductory Essay: Stravinsky's Russia: The Politics of Cultural Ferment / Donald J. Raleigh
Part One: Dancing Le Sacre Across the Century
1. A Century of Rites: The Making of an Avant-Garde Tradition / Lynn Garafola
2. The Rite of Spring as a Dance: Recent Re-Visions / Stephanie Jordan
3. Re-Sourcing Nijinsky: The Rite of Spring and Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical / Gabriele Brandstetter
4. Death by Dancing in Nijinsky's Rite / Millicent Hodson

Part Two: Le Sacre and Stravinsky in France
5. Le Sacre du Printemps: A Ballet for Paris / Annegret Fauser
6. Styling Le Sacre: The Rite's Role in French Fashion / Mary E. Davis
7. The Rite of Spring, National Narratives, and Estrangement / Brigid Cohen
8. Formalizing a "Purely Acoustic" Musical Objectivity: Another Look at a 1915 Interview with Stravinsky / William Robin
9. Racism at The Rite / Tamara Levitz

Part Three: Observations on Le Sacre in Russia
10. Commentary and Observations on Le Sacre in Russia: An Overview / Kevin Bartig
11. Stravinsky, Roerich, and Old Slavic Rituals in The Rite of Spring / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti
12. Orchestral Sketches of Le Sacre du Printemps in the National Library of Russia / Natalia Braginskaya
13. Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov: His Analytical Comments on The Rite of Spring / Grigory Lyzhov
14. Leonard Bernstein's 1959 Triumph in the Soviet Union / Olga Manulkina
15. The Rite of Spring in Russia / Svetlana Savenko
16. "I Penetrated the Mystery of the Spring Lapidary Rhythms:" Baroque Topoi in The Rite of Spring / Elena Vereshchagina
17. "The Great Sacrifice:" Contextualizing the Dream / Tatiana Vereshchagina
18. An Interview with Composer Vladimir Tarnopolski / Edited and with an Introductory Note by Christy Keele and John Reef

Part Four: The Sounds of Le Sacre
19. The Physicality of The Rite: Remarks on the Forces of Meter and Their Disruption / Pieter C. van den Toorn
20. How Not to Hear Le Sacre du Printemps? Schoenberg's Theories, Leibowitz's Recording / Severine Neff
21. Rethinking Blocks and Superimposition: Form in the "Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes" / Gretchen Horlacher
22. Stravinsky at the Crossroads after The Rite: "Jeu de rossignol mécanique" [Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale] (1 August 1913) / Maureen A. Carr
23. Dissonant Bells: The Rite's "Sacrificial Dance" 1913/2013 / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
24. Revisiting The Rite in Stravinsky's Later Serial Music / Lynne Rogers
25. Dionysos Monometrikos / Stephen Walsh
Plenary Essay: Resisting The Rite / Richard Taruskin
Bibliography / Compiled by Letitia Glozer, Sara Hoffee, and John Reef
List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Musique
• Histoire de la musique
• France
• Igor Stravinski
• Ballet
• Music
• Performance
• Train de luxe
• Dance
• Russian
• 20th century
• Eastern Europe
• Igor Stravinsky
• Musician
• The Rite of Spring
• Multiple signal classification
• Individual Composer

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 27 avril 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780253024442
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 961 Mo

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The Rite of Spring at 100
musical meaning and interpretation
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Edited by
Severine Neff,
Maureen Carr,
and Gretchen Horlacher
with john reef
The Rite of Spring at 100
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Names: Neff, Severine, [date] editor. | Carr, Maureen, editor. | Horlacher, Gretchen Grace, editor.
Title: The Rite of spring at 100 / edited by Severine Neff, Maureen Carr, and Gretchen Horlacher with John Reef ; foreword by Stephen Walsh.
Other titles: Musical meaning and interpretation.
Description: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 2017. | Series: Musical meaning and interpretation | “Audiovisual materials are available for this volume. In the enhanced ebook, these materials are embedded and can be viewed or listened to by clicking the play button.” | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016039558 | ISBN 9780253024206 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253027351 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253024442 (enhanced ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882–1971. Vesna sviashchennaia. | Ballets—20th century—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC ML410.S932 R5 2017 | DDC 784.2/1556—dc23
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Cover illustration: “Maiden Advancing: ‘Spring
Rounds.’” Drawing by Millicent Hodson, 2013.
For Joel
In memoriam, Bernard M. and Emily J. Carr
For Dick
For Sara
In appreciation of Emil Kang
and Carolina Performing Arts
Contents
List of Audiovisual Materials
Foreword: A Total Artwork: Memorable Resonances and Reverberations in The Rite / Stephen Walsh
Acknowledgments
Editorial Notes
Introductory Essay: Stravinsky’s Russia and the Politics of Cultural Ferment / Donald J. Raleigh
Part I: Dancing Le sacre across the Century
1. A Century of Rite s: The Making of an Avant-Garde Tradition / Lynn Garafola
2. The Rite of Spring as a Dance: Recent Re-visions / Stephanie Jordan
3. Re-sourcing Nijinsky: The Rite of Spring and Yvonne Rainer’s RoS Indexical / Gabriele Brandstetter
4. Death by Dancing in Nijinsky’s Rite / Millicent Hodson
Part II: Le sacre and Stravinsky in France
5. Le sacre du printemps : A Ballet for Paris / Annegret Fauser
6. Styling Le sacre : The Rite ’s Role in French Fashion / Mary E. Davis
7. The Rite of Spring , National Narratives, and Estrangement / Brigid Cohen
8. Formalizing a “Purely Acoustic” Musical Objectivity: Another Look at a 1915 Interview with Stravinsky / William Robin
9. Racism at The Rite / Tamara Levitz
Part III: Observations on Le sacre in Russia
10. Commentary and Observations on Le sacre in Russia: An Overview / Kevin Bartig
11. Stravinsky, Roerich, and Old Slavic Rituals in The Rite of Spring / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti
12. Orchestral Sketches of Le sacre du printemps in the National Library of Russia / Natalia Braginskaya
13. Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov: His Analytical Comments on The Rite of Spring / Grigory Lyzhov
14. Leonard Bernstein’s 1959 Triumph in the Soviet Union / Olga Manulkina
15. The Rite of Spring in Russia / Svetlana Savenko
16. “I Penetrated the Mystery of the Spring Lapidary Rhythms”: Baroque Topoi in The Rite of Spring / Elena Vereshchagina
17. “The Great Sacrifice”: Contextualizing the Dream / Tatiana Vereshchagina
18. An Interview with Composer Vladimir Tarnopolski / Edited and with an Introductory Note by Christy Keele and John Reef
Part IV: The Sounds of Le sacre
19. The Physicality of The Rite : Remarks on the Forces of Meter and Their Disruption / Pieter C. van den Toorn
20. How Not to Hear Le sacre du printemps ? Schoenberg’s Theories, Leibowitz’s Recording / Severine Neff
21. Rethinking Blocks and Superimposition: Form in the “Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes” / Gretchen Horlacher
22. Stravinsky at the Crossroads after The Rite : “Jeu de rossignol mécanique” (Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale) (1 August 1913) / Maureen Carr
23. Dissonant Bells: The Rite ’s “Sacrificial Dance” 1913/2013 / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
24. Revisiting The Rite in Stravinsky’s Later Serial Music / Lynne Rogers
25. Dionysos Monometrikos / Stephen Walsh
Plenary Essay: Resisting The Rite / Richard Taruskin
Bibliography / Compiled by Sara Hoffee, Letitia Glozer, and John Reef
List of Contributors
General Index
Index of Composers and Their Works
Index of Choreographers
Audiovisual Materials
Audiovisual materials are available for this volume. In the enhanced ebook, these materials are embedded and can be viewed or listened to by clicking the play button. For readers of the print book, the materials are available for viewing online at http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/media/riteofspring and can be accessed using the user name riteofspring and password LeSacre100. A list of all audiovisual materials follows.
Video 4.1. The Rite of Spring , Part II, Scene 5, “Sacrificial Dance”: “Final Signature Jumps” through the “Collapse and Lift.” In this clip from the reconstructed Rite , Maki Nakagawa of the Finnish National Ballet performs the Chosen One’s final jumps, which repeat earlier jumps and drops in a scrambled sequence that tortures the dancer’s body memory with fractured patterns of movement. She then throws herself into wide leaps that turn into whirling jumps before she falls to the ground. Outtake from De utvalda [The chosen ones], a film by Anna Blom, Ville Tanttu, and Ditte Uljas, YieFilm and Ja! Media, Helsinki and Moscow, 2013–14. Performances are shown by permission of the Finnish National Ballet, director, Kenneth Greve; the Bolshoi Orchestra, conductor, Igor Dronov; and the reconstructors of the 1913 Le sacre , Kenneth Archer and Millicent Hodson . The location of the camera in the wings for certain excerpts gives the viewer some sense of the ritual intensity dancers experience onstage. The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky. By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.
Video 4.2. Part I, Scene 1, “Augurs of Spring”: “Opening Jumps” and “Conversation with the Old Woman,” showing the gestural exch