Stravinsky the Music-Maker

by Keller, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780907689690
• ISBN10: 0907689698
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-17
• Publisher: Toccata Pr

Summary

Stravinsky the Music-Maker is the third incarnation of a book that has been greeted with superlatives on each previous appearance. Hans Keller and Milein Cosman collaborated down the decades of their married life, Keller's pen analysing music, Cosman's catching its makers at work. Stravinsky was a source of fascination for them both, and their Stravinsky at Rehearsal appeared in 1962, to be expanded, two decades later, as Stravinsky Seen and Heard. Stravinsky the Music-Maker offers the most generous compilation of their work yet: it includes Keller's complete articles on Stravinsky, written between 1954 and 1980, and augments Cosman's celebrated prints and drawings with a number not previously published. The introduction, by the composer Hugh Wood, sites the Keller-Cosman partnership in the framework of the British musical life they enriched.

Table of Contents

Preface: Hans Keller and Milein Cosman - A Happy Story	p. 7
Editorial Introduction	p. 17
Acknowledgements	p. 23
Hans Keller - Writings	p. 25
Symphony in Three Movements	p. 27
[Quatre Études and Octet]	p. 28
[Orpheus and Mass]	p. 30
[Symphony of Psalms]	p. 33
[Mass]	p. 34
Schoenberg and Stravinsky: Schoenbergians and Stravinskyians	p. 35
A Serial Masterpiece	p. 42
Towards the Psychology of Stravinsky's Genius	p. 45
Rhythm: Gershwin and Stravinsky	p. 49
Symphony of Psalms	p. 64
Strawinsky's Performance of Agon: A Report	p. 70
'Conversations with Igor Stravinsky'	p. 75
No Bridge to Nowhere: An Introduction to Stravinsky's Movements and Schoenberg's Violin Concerto	p. 82
Movements	p. 87
The Note-Row on May 31	p. 89
Me about Us and Stravinsky	p. 92
Stravinsky's Violin Concerto	p. 96
Stravinsky Eats	p. 98
Stravinsky the Downbeater	p. 101
Concerto in D	p. 105
Perséphone	p. 107
Stravinsky v. Stravinsky	p. 109
Words v. Music	p. 114
An Instrumental Problem in Pulcinella	p. 118
Factual Orgy	p. 122
Stravinsky Heard	p. 126
Words about Music	p. 167
Milein Cosman - Prints and Drawings	p. 171
Drawing Stravinsky	p. 173
A Note about the Illustrations in this Book	p. 175
Index	p. 231
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