Pieter C. van den Toorn's Books

The Music of Stravinsky

Collected Essays

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Music of Stravinsky

Collected Essays

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn

The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinskymay have been the greatest as well. Stretching across forty or so years, the essays in this volume address the dynamics of Igor Stravinsky’s music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Underscored are the features of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form that would remain consistently a part of Stravinsky’s oeuvre regardless of the changes in orientation from the Russian period to the neoclassical and the early serial. The Rite of Spring (1913), Les Noces (1917–23), the Symphony of Psalms (1930), and the Symphony in Three Movements (1945) are discussed in detail, as are many of the circumstances attending their conception. Other concerns include the composer’s "formalist" aesthetics and the strict performing style he pursued as an interpreter and conductor of his music.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

470

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000821773

ISBN 13

9781000821772

Music, Politics, and the Academy

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Music, Politics, and the Academy

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn

I value this book for its idealism, its positive vote for autonomy and technical analysis, its courageous answer to feminist musicology, its exposure of the contradictions of academic politics. Its importance lies not in settling the debates but in construing the issues in new and provocative ways."—Kofi Agawu, author of Playing with Signs "We need books like this. It deals with major topics, raises critical issues, and develops numerous interesting ideas; and it is written in an engaging manner. The book should attract attention and will provide at least one articulate countervoice to the discussion of important issues currently affecting the field, that have been raised by those professing to the "New Musicology."—Robert Morgan, author of Twentieth-Century Music

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

251

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520201167

ISBN 13

9780520201163

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn,John McGinness

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn,John McGinness

Van den Toorn and McGinness take a fresh look at the dynamics of Stravinsky's musical style from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles. Starting with processes of juxtaposition and stratification, the book offers an in-depth analysis of works such as The Rite of Spring, Les Noces and Renard. Characteristic features of style, melody and harmony are traced to rhythmic forces, including those of metrical displacement. Along with Stravinsky's formalist aesthetics, the strict performing style he favoured is also traced to rhythmic factors, thus reversing the direction of the traditional causal relationship. Here, aesthetic belief and performance practice are seen as flowing directly from the musical invention. The book provides a counter-argument to the criticism and aesthetics of T. W. Adorno and Richard Taruskin, and will appeal to composers, critics and performers as well as scholars of Stravinsky's music.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1316154335

ISBN 13

9781316154335

Music, Politics, and the Academy

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Music, Politics, and the Academy

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

251

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520201167

ISBN 13

9780520201163

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn,John McGinness

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Sound and Legacy of a Musical Idiom

By: Pieter C. van den Toorn,John McGinness

A fresh look at Stravinsky's musical style, from a variety of analytical, critical and aesthetic angles.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

337

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107021006

ISBN 13

9781107021006

Book's by Pieter C. van den Toorn

The Music of Stravinsky

The Music of Stravinsky

Music, Politics, and the Academy

Music, Politics, and the Academy

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Music, Politics, and the Academy

Music, Politics, and the Academy

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Stravinsky and the Russian Period

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email