Essays on Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky was one of the most representative and brilliant composers from the twenty century and had a big influence on the development of the modern music. He wasn’t known only for his skill as a composer, he was also recognized as a pianist, conductor and a great and valuable musician. Throughout his composing career, Stravinsky have experimented many styles in composition using different rhythms and harmonies but musicologists clearly defined three stylistic periods in his musical evolution. The first period was between 1908- 1923 and it was called “Russian period,” the second period was between 1923- 1953 and it was called “ ...

This essay will explore the compositional method and the harmonic innovations that Stravinsky used in his ballet “The Rite of Spring.” In order to capture all the ideas the essay will have three parts; the first part will be linked to the observation for the piece as a whole, the second part will be an analysis of the strategically features with examples from the score and the third part will be a cogent summary of the analysis that will imply the interpretation of the piece. “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky was premiered in 29 May 1913 at the ...

Introduction

The end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century was the epoch of revolutions: political revolutions, social revolutions, arts revolutions, revolutions of minds. And these radical changes became the exact causes for music of that era to transform alongside. During this time the Russian identity was lost to the trends from overseas. When talking about culture among high society, all that was foreign and non-native was popular, even the language used was French, not Russian. Igor Stravinsky was one of small number of people who was trying to change that situation, mainly through his ...

Aaron Copland: The Appalachian Springs

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=appalachian+spring Aaron Copland was a renowned 20th Century American music composer. Copland is widely renowned for his infusion of a distinctive “American style” into his compositions. He is widely credited for putting 20th century American music into an equal platform or footing with the one reflecting the European modernism contemporary development. One of his most famous compositions is the orchestral suite known as the “Appalachian Spring”. This composition’s background story is actually a spring celebration of 1800’s American celebrating their building of a new farmhouse in Pennsylvania. This composition is indeed very captivating and I was particularly ...

Definitions

Program Music

Program music refers to a kind of music that is creative in nature (Cooper, 2008). Music describes a situation in a narrative way. Liszt introduced this term by describing a program as an added description to the music to draw the attention of the listener to a poetic idea. It adds value to music because listeners receive it in the form of program notes, which brings a mutual relationship with the music. Program music continues to bring an effect on film music in cases where this draws the latest techniques of romantic music.

Claude-Achille Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy was a music composer from French. He lived between ...