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Popularly known during his lifetime as "The World's Greatest Living Composer," Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) not only wrote some of the twentieth century's most influential music, he also assumed the role of cultural icon. This book reveals Stravinsky's two sides-the public persona, preoccupied with his own image and place in history, and the private composer, whose views and beliefs were often purposely suppressed. Charles M. Joseph draws a richer and more human portrait of Stravinsky than anyone has done before, using an array of unpublished materials and unreleased film trims from the composer's huge archive at the Paul Sacher Institute in Switzerland.Focusing on Stravinsky's place in the culture of the twentieth century, Joseph situates the composer among the giants of his age. He discusses Stravinsky's first American commission, his complicated relationship with his son, his professional relationships with celebrities ranging from T. S. Eliot to Orson Welles, his flirtations with Hollywood and television, and his love-hate attitude toward the critics and the media. In a close look at Stravinsky's efforts to mold a public image, Joseph explores the complex dance between the composer and his artistic collaborator, Robert Craft, who orchestrated controversial efforts to protect Stravinsky and edit materials about him, both during the composer's lifetime and after his death.

Composers --- Stravinsky, Igor, --- Stravinsky, Igor --- Stravinski, Igor --- Strawinsky, Igor --- Strawinski, Igor --- Stravinskij, Igor' Fëdorovič --- Istrāvīnskī, Īgūr, --- Stravinski, Igor, --- Stravinskiĭ, I. F. --- Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich, --- Stravinskij, Igor Fiodorovič, --- Strawiński, Igor Fiodorowicz, --- Strawinskij, Igor, --- Strawinsky, I. --- Strawinsky, Igor, --- Strawinsky, Jgor, --- Стравинский, Игорь, --- סטראווינסקי, איגור --- סטראוינסקי, איגור

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Stravinsky's reinvention in the early 1920s, as both neoclassical composer and concert-pianist, is here placed at the centre of a fundamental reconsideration of his whole output - viewed from the unprecedented perspective of his relationship with the piano. Graham Griffiths assesses Stravinsky's musical upbringing in St Petersburg with emphasis on his education at the hands of two extraordinary teachers whom he later either ignored or denounced: Leokadiya Kashperova, for piano and Rimsky-Korsakov, for instrumentation. Their message, Griffiths argues, enabled Stravinsky to formulate from that intensely Russian experience an internationalist brand of neoclassicism founded upon the premises of objectivity and craft. Drawing directly on the composer's manuscripts, Griffiths addresses Stravinsky's lifelong fascination with counterpoint and with pianism's constructive processes. Stravinsky's Piano presents both of these as recurring features of the compositional attitudes that Stravinsky consistently applied to his works, whether Russian, neoclassical or serial and regardless of idiom and genre.

Stravinsky, Igor, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stravinsky, Igor --- Stravinski, Igor --- Strawinsky, Igor --- Strawinski, Igor --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Stravinskij, Igor' Fëdorovič --- Istrāvīnskī, Īgūr, --- Stravinski, Igor, --- Stravinskiĭ, I. F. --- Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich, --- Stravinskij, Igor Fiodorovič, --- Strawiński, Igor Fiodorowicz, --- Strawinskij, Igor, --- Strawinsky, I. --- Strawinsky, Igor, --- Strawinsky, Jgor, --- Стравинский, Игорь, --- סטראווינסקי, איגור --- סטראוינסקי, איגור

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This book is an attempt at a new interpretation of Stravinsky’s thoughts about music and art, an interpretation made in dialogue with the philosophy of new music and 19th-century artistic ideas. It is also a proposal for a new method of analysing the construction of his musical masterpieces (for example a proposal of new formal sound-units: partons with perceptual invariance), a method in-spired by research into cognitive psychology. Furthermore, in the analysis of Stravinsky’s music, the author emphasises its connection with the Eastern and Western traditions of European culture and links with Plato’s triad of values.

Stravinsky, Igor, --- History and criticism. --- Stravinsky, Igor --- Stravinski, Igor --- Strawinsky, Igor --- Strawinski, Igor --- Stravinskij, Igor' Fëdorovič --- Istrāvīnskī, Īgūr, --- Stravinski, Igor, --- Stravinskiĭ, I. F. --- Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich, --- Stravinskij, Igor Fiodorovič, --- Strawiński, Igor Fiodorowicz, --- Strawinskij, Igor, --- Strawinsky, I. --- Strawinsky, Igor, --- Strawinsky, Jgor, --- Стравинский, Игорь, --- סטראווינסקי, איגור --- סטראוינסקי, איגור --- Theory of music & musicology --- History: specific events & topics --- history of music --- Jarzebska --- Music --- music analysis --- musical aesthetics --- musical psychology --- new music --- serial music --- Stravinski --- Stravinsky --- Thoughts

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This new collection views Russian music through the Greek triad of "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" to investigate how the idea of ";nation"; embeds itself in the public discourse about music and other arts with results at times invigorating, at times corrupting. In our divided, post-Cold War, and now post-9/11 world, Russian music, formerly a quiet corner on the margins of musicology, has become a site of noisy contention. Richard Taruskin assesses the political and cultural stakes that attach to it in the era of Pussy Riot and renewed international tensions, before turning to individual cases from the nineteenth century to the present. Much of the volume is devoted to the resolutely cosmopolitan but inveterately Russian Igor Stravinsky, one of the major forces in the music of the twentieth century and subject of particular interest to composers and music theorists all over the world. Taruskin here revisits him for the first time since the 1990s, when everything changed for Russia and its cultural products. Other essays are devoted to the cultural and social policies of the Soviet Union and their effect on the music produced there as those policies swung away from Communist internationalism to traditional Russian nationalism; to the musicians of the Russian postrevolutionary diaspora; and to the tension between the compelling artistic quality of works such as Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps or Prokofieff's Zdravitsa and the antihumanistic or totalitarian messages they convey. Russian Music at Home and Abroad addresses these concerns in a personal and critical way, characteristically demonstrating Taruskin's authority and ability to bring living history out of the shadows.

Music --- History and criticism. --- Stravinsky, Igor, --- Stravinsky, Igor --- Stravinski, Igor --- Strawinsky, Igor --- Strawinski, Igor --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Stravinskij, Igor' Fëdorovič --- Istrāvīnskī, Īgūr, --- Stravinski, Igor, --- Stravinskiĭ, I. F. --- Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich, --- Stravinskij, Igor Fiodorovič, --- Strawiński, Igor Fiodorowicz, --- Strawinskij, Igor, --- Strawinsky, I. --- Strawinsky, Igor, --- Strawinsky, Jgor, --- Стравинский, Игорь, --- סטראווינסקי, איגור --- סטראוינסקי, איגור --- 19th century russian music. --- 20th century russian music. --- contemporary russian music. --- international response to russian music. --- music history. --- music of the former soviet union. --- musicology. --- pokifieff. --- postrevolutionary russian music. --- pussy riot. --- russian composers. --- russian cultural products. --- russian music history. --- russian music. --- russian musicology. --- russian national music. --- russias antihumanistic music. --- sacre du printemps. --- stavinsky. --- zdravitsa.

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One of the country's most enduringly successful composers, Aaron Copland created a distinctively American style and aesthetic in works for a diversity of genres and mediums, including ballet, opera, and film. Also active as a critic, mentor, advocate, and concert organizer, he played a decisive role in the growth of serious music in the Americas in the twentieth century. In The American Stravinsky, Gayle Murchison closely analyzes selected works to discern the specific compositional techniques Copland used, and to understand the degree to which they derived from European models, particularly the influence of Igor Stravinsky. Murchison examines how Copland both Americanized these models and made them his own, thereby finding his own compositional voice. Murchison also discusses Copland's aesthetics of music and his ideas about its purpose and social function.

Music --- History and criticism. --- Copland, Aaron, --- Stravinsky, Igor, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Stravinsky, Igor --- Stravinskij, Igor' Fëdorovič --- Istrāvīnskī, Īgūr, --- Stravinski, Igor, --- Stravinskiĭ, I. F. --- Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich, --- Stravinskij, Igor Fiodorovič, --- Strawiński, Igor Fiodorowicz, --- Strawinskij, Igor, --- Strawinsky, I. --- Strawinsky, Igor, --- Strawinsky, Jgor, --- Стравинский, Игорь, --- סטראווינסקי, איגור --- סטראוינסקי, איגור --- Kopland, Aaron, --- Koplend, Aaron, --- Копланд, Аарон, --- コープランド, アーロン, --- Kōpurando, Āron, --- Kūpland, Ārūn, --- کوپلند، آرون --- Copland, Aron,