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Description of  The Music of Stravinsky: Collected Essays

The most celebrated of Western composers in the twentieth century, Igor Stravinskymay have been the greatest as well. Stretching across forty or so years, the essays in this volume address the dynamics of Igor Stravinskys music from a variety of analytical, critical, and aesthetic angles. Underscored are the features of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form that would remain consistently a part of Stravinskys oeuvre regardless of the changes in orientation from the Russian period to the neoclassical and the early serial. Read more