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Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Volume 1 - A Biography of the Works Through Mavra (Hardcover)
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Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Volume 1 - A Biography of the Works Through Mavra (Hardcover)
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This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in
music. During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed
his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard
Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this
long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsky's relationship to the
musical and artistic traditions of his native land and gives us a
dramatically new picture of one of the major figures in the history
of music. Taruskin draws directly on newly accessible archives and
on a wealth of Russian documents. In Volume One, he sets the
historical scene: the St. Petersburg musical press, the arts
journals, and the writings of anthropologists, folklorists,
philosophers, and poets. Volume Two addresses the masterpieces of
Stravinsky's early maturity-Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, and Les
Noces. Taruskin investigates the composer's collaborations with
Diaghilev to illuminate the relationship between folklore and
modernity. He elucidates the Silver Age ideal of
"neonationalism"-the professional appropriation of motifs and style
characteristics from folk art-and how Stravinsky realized this
ideal in his music. Taruskin demonstrates how Stravinsky achieved
his modernist technique by combining what was most
characteristically Russian in his musical training with stylistic
elements abstracted from Russian folklore. The stylistic synthesis
thus achieved formed Stravinsky as a composer for life, whatever
the aesthetic allegiances he later professed. Written with
Taruskin's characteristic mixture of in-depth research and
stylistic verve, this book will be mandatory reading for all those
seriously interested in the life and work of Stravinsky.
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