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Title Stravinsky and his world / edited by Tamara Levitz
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 367 pages) : illustrations, music
Series The Bard Music Festival
Bard Music Festival series.
Contents Stravinsky in exile / Jonathan Cross -- Who owns Mavra? : a transnational dispute / introduction and notes by Tamara Levitz ; translations by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Laurel E. Fay, Alexandra Grabarchuk, and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky's Russian library / Tatiana Baranova Monighetti -- The futility of exhortation: pleading in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Orpheus / Gretchen Horlacher -- Symphonies and Funeral games: Lourié's critique of Stravinsky's neoclassicism / Klára Móricz -- Arthur Lourié's Eurasianist and neo-Thomist responses to the crisis of art / introduction and notes by Klára Móricz ; translation by Bridget Behrmann, Katya Ermolaev, Yasha Klots, Tamara Levitz, Klára Móricz, and Boris Wolfson -- Igor the Angeleno: the Mexican connection / Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky speaks to the Spanish-speaking world / introduction by Leonora Saavedra ; interviews translated by Mariel Fiori in collaboration with Tamara Levitz ; document notes by Tamara Levitz -- The Poétique musicale: a counterpoint in three voices / Valérie Dufour ; translated by Bridget Behrmann and Tamara Levitz -- Stravinsky : the view from Russia / Svetlana Savenko ; translated by Philipp Penka -- Stravinsky's cold war: letters about the composer's return to Russia, 1960-1963 / letters translated by Philipp Penka with Alexandra Grabarchuk ; introduction, commentary, and notes by Tamara Levitz -- "The precision of poetry and the exactness of pure science": The parallel lives of Vladimir Nabokov and Igor Stravinsky / Leon Botstein
Summary Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. Contributors examine Stravinsky's interaction with Spanish and Latin American modernism, rethink the stylistic label ""neoclassicism"" with a section on the ideological conflict over his lesser-known opera buffa Mavra, and reassess his connections to his
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 -- History and criticism
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Stravinsky, Igor 1882-1971
Composers -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
Composers
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Levitz, Tamara, 1962- editor.
LC no. 2013937053
ISBN 9781400848546
1400848547
1299777988
9781299777989
178539987X
9781785399879