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Jun 16, 2020 · Three Russian Sacred Choruses (composed between 1926 and 1934) express Stravinsky’s newly found faith in music of ingratiating simplicity, recalling Russian Orthodox Church music in unfiltered terms.
- Psychological Aspect
- Hybrid Intertextuality
- Alienation as A Musical Experience
- Music About Music and The “Tendency of The Material”
Over 25 years after de Schloezer’s critique, in Philosophy of new musicAdorno finds Stravinsky’s neoclassical procedures and his musical aesthetic highly disturbed and compares Stravinsky’s laconic expression to mental illness. For Adorno, Stravinsky’s aesthetic procedure of “killing the expression” is a synonym for insanity: According to Witkin (2...
In addition to the psychological aspect, one of the most distinctive characteristics of Stravinsky’s 1920s neoclassicism is the way he subtly combines elements from previous centuries’ classical music and other genres such as jazz while nevertheless preserving the originality of his own style. The end-result becomes a revolutionary new direction wh...
Adorno’s loaded comment about Stravinsky’s neoclassical aesthetics—“killing the expression”—is presumably connected to the concept of alienation, one of Adorno’s key concepts and undeniably an essential feature of Stravinsky’s neoclassical music as recognized by many of his contemporaries. According to Mészaros (1972: 36), alienation is a historica...
Adorno (2006: 134) calls Stravinsky’s neoclassicism reactionary and uses the pejorative expression about neoclassicism—“music about music”—to define the contradictions in Stravinsky’s music and as a counterblow to everything musically “literary”. According to Witkin (1998: 152), Adorno sees parody and quotation as the natural means of Stravinsky’s ...
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In the early 1920s he adopted a radically different style of restrained Neoclassicism—employing often ironic references to older music—in works such as his Octet (1923). His major Neoclassical works include Oedipus rex (1927) and the Symphony of Psalms (1930) and culminate in the opera The Rake’s Progress (1951).
Jun 6, 2021 · The tenor goes on to narrate the entire life of Christ, from the Nativity to the Ascension, in eleven verses. Stravinsky’s music is contrapuntally intricate—based on the polyphonic device of the canon—yet of piercing beauty, with moments of striking musical storytelling.
Jun 17, 2020 · Stravinsky had written the work shortly after he’d completed his violin concerto, claiming he still hadn’t exhausted his interest in composing for the violin, and described the theme “as offering...
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Jul 29, 1984 · When Craft met Igor Stravinsky in 1948, a friendship was initiated which was to generate some astonishing music from the composer, a still-ongoing avalanche of memoirs, photodocumentation ...
