Stravinsky's Piano : Genesis of a Musical Language.
An unprecedented exploration of Stravinsky's use of the piano as the genesis of all his music - Russian, neoclassical and serial.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Music since 1900.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Stravinsky's Piano; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Music examples; Acknowledgements; Sources of copyright material; Introduction; 1 Becoming a Russian musician; Stravinsky's piano teachers; Early piano solos; Tarantella (1898): fragment; Scherzo (1902); Piano Sonata in F. minor (1903/4); Four Studies op. 7 (1908); Early songs; 'Tucha' ('Storm Cloud', 1902); 'How the Mushrooms Mobilized for War' (1904); The Faun and the Shepherdess op. 2 (1906); Two Melodies of Gorodetsky op. 6 (1907/1908); 'Pastorale' (1907); Rimskian principles; The orchestral piano.
- Petrushka: Burlesque in Four Scenes (1910-11)The Rite of Spring (1911-13); Two exceptions that prove the rule ... ; 2 Becoming a neoclassicist; Pianistic patterns; Taking the low road; Transcription and the performer; From Svadebka to Les Noces; Stravinsky's neoclassicism re-considered; Notes of objectivity; Poetics, process, pal'tserazvitiye; The 'pure' character of counterpoint; A reluctant disciple; 3 Stravinsky's piano workshop; Fingering as compositional process; A Leschetizkian route to pianism; Taruskin's nepodvizhnost' re-considered; 'Philipp' and Balanchine.
- 'Exaudi orationem meam': pedagogy appliedIndex-finger-over-thumb overlap; Progressive extension; Varied articulation; The pedal point; 'An organic whole'; 4 Departures and homecomings; Serial neoclassicism; Duo concertant (1931/1932); Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (1931/1935); Symphony in Three Movements (1942/1945); The Rake's Progress (1948/1951); Septet; Movements for Piano and Orchestra
- and beyond ... ; Neoclassical serialism; Septet (1952/1953); Movements for Piano and Orchestra (1958/1959)
- and beyond ... ; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.