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Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter One:
- The emergence of Stravinsky's neoclassicism and the aesthetic underpinnings of the idea in the other arts and in recent social/political history
- Chapter Two:
- Stravinsky at the Crossroads after the Rite
- Jeu de rossignol mecanique [Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale] (1 August 1913)
- Trois pieces (Vl 2, Va, Vc
- ), II [Three Pieces for String Quartet, II]
- Grotesques
- Eccentrique (2 July 1914)
- Trois pieces faciles (Kl 4 hdg) [Three Easy Pieces] (4 hands)
- Marche (19 December 1914)
- Chapter Three:
- Stravinsky at the Crossroads between Primitivism and Neoclassicism
- Renard [Bajka](1915-1916)
- and
- Histoire du soldat (1917-1918)
- Chapter Four:
- Stravinsky's Improvisatory Style
- The predictive qualities of the Etude pour Pianola (1917)
- Stravinsky's appropriation of the rag idiom (1917)
- Stravinsky completes three works that were inspired by elements of ragtime (1918):
- (1) Ragtime (for piano and the same piece arranged for 11 Instruments),
- (2) Ragtime as one of the three dances in Histoire du soldat and
- (3) the last movement of Trois pieces pour clarinette.
- The two faces of Stravinsky's Piano-Rag-Music (1919): portrait or collage?
- Chapter Five:
- Stravinsky's Compositional Process for Symphonies d'instruments a vent (191?-1920) and Concertino (1920) as understood through the overlapping of the musical sketches and the resulting sound blocks
- Chapter Six:
- Les cinq doigts (1921) as a link between Pulcinella (1919-1920) and Mavra (1922)
- Commentaries by Poulenc, Schloezer, Cocteau and Mayakovsky with Stravinsky at the Pleyel Factory (November 18, 1922)
- retrospective commentaries about Mavra in Poetics
- Chapter Seven:
- Stravinsky's Neoclassicism flourishes in Oktett (1919-1923)
- Experiments with Cinq pieces monometriques (-
- 192?)
- Konzert (Piano and Winds) (1923-1924)
- Chapter Eight:
- Stravinsky's models from the piano literature (by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin)
- NPR interview with Charles Rosen and Elliot Carter on Beethoven influences in the Sonata
- commentaries by Arthur Lourie, Boris deShloezer, Roman Vlad
- Sonate (Piano) (1924)
- Serenade en la (1925)
- Epilogue