Stravinsky and His World / / Tamara Levitz.

Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 22 halftones. 18 musical examples.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Transliteration and Titles of Works
  • Permissions and Credits
  • Stravinsky in Exile
  • Who Owns Mavra? A Transnational Dispute
  • Stravinsky's Russian Library
  • The Futility of Exhortation: Pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus
  • Symphonies and Funeral Games: Lourié's Critique of Stravinsky's Neoclassicism
  • Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and Neo-Thomist Responses to the Crisis of Art
  • Igor the Angeleno: The Mexican Connection
  • Stravinsky Speaks to the Spanish-Speaking World
  • The Poétique musicale: A Counterpoint in Three Voices
  • Stravinsky: The View from Russia
  • Stravinsky's Cold War: Letters About the Composer's Return to Russia, 1960-1963
  • "The Precision of Poetry and the Exactness of Pure Science": Nabokov, Stravinsky, and the Reader as Listener
  • Index
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Backmatter