Stravinsky (Master Musician) Book

The author surveys Stravinsky's vastly variegated life & output in one chronological sweep, show how certain basic images & ideas resound again & again in the music. He also puts emphasis on Stravinsky's remarkable capacity to start afresh, to confront us not with one Stravinsky but with many.There are musical examples as well as photos throughout the book.Contents:*Preface*Childhood*Apprenticeship*The Firebird*Petrushka*The rite of spring*Three Japanese lyrics & a Chinese opera*Around Les noces*Histoire du soldat & other rags*Pergolesi & after*A Russian opera & an octet*Piano & pianola*A Latin opera*The muses' summer*Symphony of Psalms*Stravinsky's violin*A French melodrama*Cards & concertos*Symphony in C*Symphony in three movements*The mass of Orpheus*An American opera*New songs*Ag - Canticum sacrum - on*Threnodies, movements & monuments*Stories from the bible*Memorials*SilenceAppendices:*Calendar*List of works*List of recordings*Personalia*BibliographyRead More