The Apollonian clockwork : on Stravinsky / by Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schönberger ; translated from the Dutch by Jeff Hamburg.

Author/creator Andriessen, Louis
Other author Schönberger, Elmer.
Other author Hamburg, Jeff, translator.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Descriptionxii, 294 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Subjects
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971--Criticism and interpretation.

Uniform titleApollinisch uurwerk. English
Contents The new renewed -- 1966: Requiem canticles -- America on Sunday -- Ars imitatio artis -- No copyright problem here -- 1919: La marseillaise -- A motto -- Ordeals of the memory -- Forma formans -- Zoonology -- 1947: Orpheus -- Purcell, Pergolesi, and the others -- Concocted reality -- The inverted metaphor -- The utopian unison -- Poétique musicale -- On influence -- 1952: Cantata -- Philosophie der neuen Musik -- 1955: Greeting prelude -- New York: Robert Craft and Vera Stravinsky -- 1943: Ode -- Monsieur, la pauvre Satie -- Ragtime -- 1921: Les cinq doigts -- 1917: Les noces (Svadebka) -- On montage technique -- A kind of Brecht -- 1918: L'histoire du soldat -- On authenticating and on making current -- Ostinato basses -- A visit to Lake Geneva -- Id est: hermetic music -- Stravinsky -- 1957: Agon -- The world, a comedy -- '...Pesni͡u︡ poi͡u︡' ('...I sing my song') -- The metamorphosis of Misha -- Octotony -- The Firebird as magpie -- 1912: Le Roi des étoiles (Zvezdoliki) -- The tradition of the new -- Spirit in the bottle of Cologne -- A photomontage -- 1951: The rake's progress.
Abstract 'I think my music deserves to be considered as a whole', Igor Stravinsky remarked at the end of a long and restless career, and that is exactly what the authors of The Apollonian Clockwork do. In 1982, convinced that there is no essential difference between 'early' and 'late' Stravinsky, Louis Andriessen and Elmer Schönberger were the first to write a monograph on the composer which radically breaks with the habit of dividing his works into 'Russian', 'neoclassical' and 'serial'. In an essay which continually shifts in its approach, style and perspective, the authors elaborate on their insight that a single, immutable compositional attitude underlies the whole of Stravinsky's oeuvre. By this token the book not only offers an analysis of the composer?s protean work and artistry but takes example by it as well.
General noteTranslation of: Het apollinisch uurwerk.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
LCCN 88025543
ISBN0193154617 :

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML410.S932 A6313 1989 ✔ Available Place Hold