Pieter C. van den Toorn is Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Music of Igor Stravinsky (1983), Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring (1987) and Music, Politics, and the Academy (1995). Stravinsky and The Rite of Spring won the Deems Taylor Award (1989) and the Outstanding Publication Award of the Society for Music Theory (1990).
Introduction
1. Meter and metrical displacement in Stravinsky
2. The octatonic scale
3. A brief survey
4. Meter, motive, and alignment in Les Noces - Stravinsky's block and layered structures
5. Melody and harmony in Les Noces
6. Meter, text, and alignment in Renard (1916) - Stravinsky's 'rejoicing discovery'
7. Allegro! Renard reconsidered
8. Melodic repeat structures in the music of Stravinsky, Debussy, and Rimsky-Korsakov - another look at the symphonies of wind instruments (1920)
9. Issues of performance practice and aesthetic belief
10. Stravinsky and his critics.
