The Cambridge Companion to Stravinsky

by Edited by Jonathan Cross

• ISBN13: 9780521663779
• ISBN10: 0521663776
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Stravinsky's work spanned the major part of the twentieth-century and was engaged with nearly all its principal compositional developments. Reflecting the breadth of his phenomenal achievement, this Companion contains a wide range of essays in three broad sections covering the contexts within which Stravinsky worked--Russian, modernist and compositional, with his key compositions--Russian, neoclassical and serial, and with the reception of his ideas--through performance, analysis and criticism. The volume concludes with an interview with the composer Louis Andriessen and a major re-evaluation of "Stravinsky and us" by Richard Taruskin.

Table of Contents

Chronology of Stravinsky's life and career

Part I. Origins and Contexts: 1. Stravinsky's origins Rosamund Bartlett

2. Stravinsky as modernist Christopher Butler

3. Stravinsky in context Arnold Whittall

Part II. The Works: 4. Early Stravinsky Anthony Pople

5. Russian Rites: Petrushka, The Rite of Spring, Les Noces Kenneth Gloag

6. Stravinsky's neoclassicism Martha Hyde

7. Stravinsky in the theatre Jonathan Cross

8. Stravinsky the serialist Joseph N. Straus

Part III. Reception: 9. Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky Nicholas Cook

10. Stravinsky as devil Max Paddison

11. Stravinsky and the analytical traditions Craig Ayrey

12. Stravinsky and the critics Stuart Campbell

13. Composing with Stravinsky Louis Andriessen and Jonathan Cross

14. Stravinsky and us Richard Taruskin.