The Rite of Spring in Full Score (Dover Music Scores)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486258572 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Great score.. Great resource Valencio Jackson Jr. Study score is clean and accurate. Great for general score study and analysis.. Elyrae said Beautiful. What a beautiful piece of music. And the score was in mint condition, had obviously never been opened before. Met all of my expectations. Thanks!
Choreographed by Nijinsky, it is still a favorite of ballet audiences, and the score is one of the most performed and recorded modern works in the orchestral repertoire. Once a scandal, it is now perhaps the most famous orchestral work of the twentieth century. It is reprinted here from the full-score Russian edition published in 1965.Like Stravinsky's scores for The Firebird and Petrushka, The Rite of Spring was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes. Now music lovers can enjoy every note of this brilliant and stirring landmark of twentieth-century music, faithfully reproduced in this inexpensive, high-quality edition—ideal for study and for following both live and recorded performances.. These "Scenes of Pagan Russia" did indeed inspire
Choreographed by Nijinsky, it is still a favorite of ballet audiences, and the score is one of the most performed and recorded modern works in the orchestral repertoire. These "Scenes of Pagan Russia" did indeed inspire primitive reactions among their opening night audience, who were so vociferous in their protests that the dancers could scarcely hear the music.Yet this powerful work, with its novel rhythms and hitherto unheard-of chordal combinations and orchestral effects would change forever the elements of musical language and exert an enormous influence on three generations of composers. It is reprinted here from the full-score Russian edition published in 1965.Like Stravinsky's scores for The Firebird and Petrushka, The Rite of Spring was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes. Once a scandal, it is now perhaps the most famous orchestral work of the twentieth century. Now music lovers can enjoy every note of this brilliant and stirring landmark of twentieth-century music, faithfully reproduced in this inexpensive, high-quality edition — ideal for study and for following both live and recorded performances.. Jean Cocteau labeled this revolutionary work "a pastorale of the prehistoric world" at its pr