stravinsky Flashcards
stravinsky birth and death
1882 - 1971 (age 88)
Stravinsky era
modern
modern era
composers at the dawn of the 20th century were eager to establish a different musical path. They challenged the concept of tonality and left behind the established practice of writing music “in a key.”
1900 - PRESENT
stravinsky’s composition
The Rite of Spring
ballet (stravinsky)
a highly stylized type of dance that often interprets a story
first developed in the 17th century at the court of Louis XIV
flourished in the 19th-century Russian court
many significant composers, including Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Debussy, and Prokofiev, composed music for ballets
choreography (stravinsky)
the art of designing the dance steps and movements in a ballet (or musical)
primitivism (stravinsky)
an effect created largely through rhythm
use of strong accents, heavy syncopation, polyrhythms, expanded percussion section
demonstrated best in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring