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The Rite of Spring at 100

  • Editor: Carr, Maureen A
  • Editor: Horlacher, Gretchen
  • Editor: Neff, Severine
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Contents

  • List of Audio-Visual Materials
  • Foreword: A Total Art-Work: Memorable Resonances and Reverberations in The Rite / Stephen Walsh
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introductory Essay: Stravinsky's Russia: The Politics of Cultural Ferment / Donald J. Raleigh
  • Part One: Dancing Le Sacre Across the Century
  • 1. A Century of Rites: The Making of an Avant-Garde Tradition / Lynn Garafola
  • 2. The Rite of Spring as a Dance: Recent Re-Visions / Stephanie Jordan
  • 3. Re-Sourcing Nijinsky: The Rite of Spring and Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical / Gabriele Brandstetter
  • 4. Death by Dancing in Nijinsky's Rite / Millicent Hodson
  • Part Two: Le Sacre and Stravinsky in France
  • 5. Le Sacre du Printemps: A Ballet for Paris / Annegret Fauser
  • 6. Styling Le Sacre: The Rite's Role in French Fashion / Mary E. Davis
  • 7. The Rite of Spring, National Narratives, and Estrangement / Brigid Cohen
  • 8. Formalizing a "Purely Acoustic" Musical Objectivity: Another Look at a 1915 Interview with Stravinsky / William Robin
  • 9. Racism at The Rite / Tamara Levitz
  • Part Three: Observations on Le Sacre in Russia
  • 10. Commentary and Observations on Le Sacre in Russia: An Overview / Kevin Bartig
  • 11. Stravinsky, Roerich, and Old Slavic Rituals in The Rite of Spring / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti
  • 12. Orchestral Sketches of Le Sacre du Printemps in the National Library of Russia / Natalia Braginskaya
  • 13. Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov: His Analytical Comments on The Rite of Spring / Grigory Lyzhov
  • 14. Leonard Bernstein's 1959 Triumph in the Soviet Union / Olga Manulkina
  • 15. The Rite of Spring in Russia / Svetlana Savenko
  • 16. "I Penetrated the Mystery of the Spring Lapidary Rhythms:" Baroque Topoi in The Rite of Spring / Elena Vereshchagina
  • 17. "The Great Sacrifice:" Contextualizing the Dream / Tatiana Vereshchagina
  • 18. An Interview with Composer Vladimir Tarnopolski / Edited and with an Introductory Note by Christy Keele and John Reef
  • Part Four: The Sounds of Le Sacre
  • 19. The Physicality of The Rite: Remarks on the Forces of Meter and Their Disruption / Pieter C. van den Toorn
  • 20. How Not to Hear Le Sacre du Printemps? Schoenberg's Theories, Leibowitz's Recording / Severine Neff
  • 21. Rethinking Blocks and Superimposition: Form in the "Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes" / Gretchen Horlacher
  • 22. Stravinsky at the Crossroads after The Rite: "Jeu de rossignol mecanique" [Performance of the Mechanical Nightingale] (1 August 1913) / Maureen A. Carr
  • 23. Dissonant Bells: The Rite's "Sacrificial Dance" 1913/2013 / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
  • 24. Revisiting The Rite in Stravinsky's Later Serial Music / Lynne Rogers
  • 25. Dionysos Monometrikos / Stephen Walsh
  • Plenary Essay: Resisting The Rite / Richard Taruskin
  • Bibliography / Compiled by Letitia Glozer, Sara Hoffee, and John Reef
  • List of Contributors
  • Index