Stravinsky, Le Sacre Du Printemps, Mvmt.1 Flashcards
What is a musical chameleon?
Composer able to change style as studies with many
What was Stravinsky’s style?
Distinct Russian style
When was the outbreak of stravinsky’s neoclassical work?
Where did he live, and what were their influences?
Fled to Switzerland at outbreak of WW1
Paris: impressionist
USA (Hollywood lifestyle)
What was Le Sacre du Printemps composed for?
Ballet
What were the 3 Russian ballets a collaboration with?
What were they?
Ballet Russes
The firebird (1910)
Petruskka (1911)
The Rite of Spring (1913)
What are 3 of Stravinsky’s neoclassical works?
The Rakes Progress (1951)
Symphony of Psalms (1930)
Orpheus (1947)
What wider listening links Le Sacre du Printemps with Petals?
How?
8 songs for a mad king by Pieter Maxwell Davies
New directions
Strange use of instruments
What was the sentiment of music at the time?
What are 4 examples of this?
Deeply nationalist
Finlandia, Sibelius
Pomp & Circumstance, Elgar
Peer Gynt, Grieg
Dad Lieder von Erde, Maher
What pieces by Strauss were also had deep nationalist sentiment?
Sprock Zarathustra
Alpine Symphony
What era was Stravinsky on the edge of?
What were it’s elements?
Romantic 1780 - 1910
Increased orchestra size
Increased experiment, decoration & ornamentation
What are 2 romantic era wider listenings?
Symphonie Phantastique, Berlioz (1830)
Sprach Zarathustra, Strauss (1896)
How was Le Sacre du Printemps received in its opening night?
Badly
Conservative audience riot in protest
What was Le Sacre su Printemps an interpretation of?
Modernist impression of Russian folk life
What does Le Sacre du Printemps depict?
Young girl dances herself to death
Sacrificed to god of spring
What is the starting theme?
Sped up Lithuanian wedding folk song melody
How strict is the time?
WL
Rubato & tempo rubato (borrowed time)
Debussy:
‘tempo’ - take time
‘metro rubato’ - take back
Describe the intervals
Angular: dim, aug, minor
Makes it unpleasant
Why is the music free to the players?
Improv
Describe the intervals
Wide leaps
Dudki meaning
How is it used in mvmt. 1?
Pipes
Opening Dudki uses instruments as if in native sound world
What we’re the strings subordinate to?
Wing & brass
How were the instruments used?
Example
Unusually
Bassoon high tessitura (opening solo)
What are some of the playing techniques? (4)
Pitzz
Arco
Flutter tongue
Tremolo
How is the sound thinned in bar 57?
Why does it have this effect?
Double basses split into 6 different parts
One double bass on one note each only
Describe the cross rhythms?
Complex
Why was the rhythm hard for the dancers to dance to?
Constantly changing time signature/metre
When is the tempo most free?
Intro
What are the two different rhythms?
Extensive tuplet rhythms
Some syncopated rhythms
What is unpredictable about syncopation?
Don’t know when notes will occur
What is bitonality?
WL
Two keys at once
VW
What scale is used?
What genre is this commonly used with?
WL
Whole tone
Folk song
VW & Debussy
What is the key?
No fixed key
When is there a false relation?
How?
What is the effect of this?
What can this be linked with?
Bar 2
C# & C natural
Gives maj/min ambiguity
religious link
Why is there an unpleasant sound?
Dissonance
What is parallel harmony?
What feel does this give?
What music genere is it linked with?
WL
Parallel movement of 2 or more melodies
Pastoral
Folk song
VW
How is a canvas/wall of sound created?
Melodies & rhythms overlap
What is the starting texture?
Why?
What happens to the texture after?
Monophonic
Bassoon solo
Grows from there
What is the texture mostly?
Contrapuntal
Melodies playing in conjunction with each other
What is the title of Mvmt.1?
Intro
L’Adoration de la Terre
