Pieter C. van den Toorn (U.S.A. University of California)

Gebundenes Buch

The Music of Stravinsky

Collected Essays

Beschreibung

The essays in this volume, spanning more than forty, address the dynamics of Stravinskyâ s music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Works such as The Rite of Spring (1913), Les Noces (1917â 23), the Symphony of Psalms (1930), and the Symphony in Three Movements (1945) are discussed in detail.

Autor

Pieter C. van den Toorn is professor of music emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, in1938, he attended Amherst College and Harvard University before studying for several years with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. Subsequently, in 1986, he recieved his phD in music from University of California, at Berkeley. His books include The music of Igor Stravinsky (1983), Stravisnky and "The Rite of Spring" (1987), Music, Politics, and the Academy (1995), Stravinsky and the Russian Period (2012), with John McGinness, and Simply Stravinsky (2020). Stravisnsky and "The Rite of Spting" won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award and the outstanding of the Society for Music Theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 838g
• ISBN-13: 9789814968621
• ISBN-10: 9814968625
• Artikelnr.: 67679284