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When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as distinguished music and dance scholars discuss the meaning of the work and its far-reaching influence on world music, performance, and culture. Essays explore four key facets of the ballet: its choreography and movement; the cultural and historical contexts of its performance and reception in France; its structure and use of innovative rhythmic and tonal features; and the reception of the work in Russian music history and theory.
 

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Further Series Titles, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. List of Audiovisual Materials
  2. pp. xiii-xviii
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  1. Foreword: A Total Artwork: Memorable Resonances and Reverberations in The Rite
  2. Stephen Walsh
  3. pp. xix-xxii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xxiii-xxvi
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  1. Editorial Notes
  2. pp. xxvii-xxviii
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  1. Introductory Essay: Stravinsky’s Russia and the Politics of Cultural Ferment
  2. Donald J. Raleigh
  3. pp. 1-14
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  1. Part I: Dancing Le sacre across the Century
  1. 1. A Century of Rites: The Making of an Avant-Garde Tradition
  2. Lynn Garafola
  3. pp. 17-28
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  1. 2. The Rite of Spring as a Dance: Recent Re-visions
  2. Stephanie Jordan
  3. pp. 29-38
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  1. 3. Re-sourcing Nijinsky: The Rite of Spring and Yvonne Rainer’s lRoS Indexica
  2. Gabriele Brandstetter
  3. pp. 39-46
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  1. 4. Death by Dancing in Nijinsky’s Rite
  2. Millicent Hodson
  3. pp. 47-80
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  1. Part II: Le sacre and Stravinsky in France
  1. 5. Le sacre du printemps: A Ballet for Paris
  2. Annegret Fauser
  3. pp. 83-97
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  1. 6. Styling Le sacre: The Rite’s Role in French Fashion
  2. Mary E. Davis
  3. pp. 98-128
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  1. 7. The Rite of Spring, National Narratives, and Estrangement
  2. Brigid Cohen
  3. pp. 129-137
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  1. 8. Formalizing a “Purely Acoustic” Musical Objectivity: Another Look at a 1915 Interview with Stravinsky
  2. William Robin
  3. pp. 138-145
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  1. 9. Racism at The Rite
  2. Tamara Levitz
  3. pp. 146-178
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  1. Part III: Observations on Le sacre in Russia
  1. 10. Commentary and Observations on Le sacre in Russia: An Overview
  2. Kevin Bartig
  3. pp. 181-188
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  1. 11. Stravinsky, Roerich, and Old Slavic Rituals in The Rite of Spring
  2. Tatiana Baranova Monighetti
  3. pp. 189-198
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  1. 12. Orchestral Sketches of Le sacre du printemps in the National Library of Russia
  2. Natalia Braginskaya
  3. pp. 199-210
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  1. 13. Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov: His Analytical Comments on The Rite of Spring
  2. Grigory Lyzhov
  3. pp. 211-218
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  1. 14. Leonard Bernstein’s 1959 Triumph in the Soviet Union
  2. Olga Manulkina
  3. pp. 219-236
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  1. 15. The Rite of Spring in Russia
  2. Svetlana Savenko
  3. pp. 237-245
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  1. 16. “I Penetrated the Mystery of the Spring Lapidary Rhythms”: Baroque Topoi in The Rite of Spring
  2. Elena Vereshchagina
  3. pp. 246-271
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  1. 17. “The Great Sacrifice”: Contextualizing the Dream
  2. Tatiana Vereshchagina
  3. pp. 272-278
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  1. 18. An Interview with Composer Vladimir Tarnopolski
  2. Christy Keele, John Reef
  3. pp. 279-282
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  1. Part IV: The Sounds of Le sacre
  1. 19. The Physicality of The Rite: Remarks on the Forces of Meter and Their Disruption
  2. Pieter C. van den Toorn
  3. pp. 285-303
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  1. 20. How Not to Hear Le sacre du printemps? Schoenberg’s Theories, Leibowitz’s Recording
  2. Severine Neff
  3. pp. 304-330
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  1. 21. Rethinking Blocks and Superimposition: Form in the “Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes”
  2. Gretchen Horlacher
  3. pp. 331-338
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  1. 22. Stravinsky at the Crossroads after The Rite: “Jeu de rossignol mécanique” (Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale) (1 August 1913)
  2. Maureen Carr
  3. pp. 339-353
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  1. 23. Dissonant Bells: The Rite’s “Sacrificial Dance” 1913/2013
  2. Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
  3. pp. 354-379
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  1. 24. Revisiting The Rite in Stravinsky’s Later Serial Music
  2. Lynne Rogers
  3. pp. 380-401
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  1. 25. Dionysos Monometrikos
  2. Stephen Walsh
  3. pp. 402-416
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  1. Plenary Essay: Resisting The Rite
  2. Richard Taruskin
  3. pp. 417-446
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  1. Bibliography
  2. Sara Hoffee, Letitia Glozer, John Reef
  3. pp. 447-488
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 489-496
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  1. General Index
  2. pp. 497-514
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  1. Index of Composers and Their Works
  2. pp. 515-518
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  1. Index of Choreographers
  2. pp. 519-520
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