The Rite of Spring at 100
- Editor: Carr, Maureen A
- Editor: Horlacher, Gretchen
- Editor: Neff, Severine
The content is diverse, thought provoking, and occasionally controversial. . . . Recommended —
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$63.50Contents
- 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