Igor Stravinsky The Rakes Progress

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521281997
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress written by Paul Griffiths and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521245906
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Igor Stravinsky, the Rake's Progress written by Paul Griffiths and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth-century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.

Author : Chandler Carter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253041619
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Opera written by Chandler Carter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences. Few perceived that Stravinsky and Auden were confronting the central crisis of the Modern age, for their story of a hapless eighteenth-century Everyman dramatizes the very limits of human will, a theme Auden insists underlies all opera. In The Last Opera, Chandler Carter weaves together three interlocking stories. The central and most detailed story explores the libretto and music of The Rake's Progress. The second positions the opera as a focal point in Stravinsky's artistic journey and those who helped him realize it—his librettists, Auden and Chester Kallman; his protégé Robert Craft; and his compatriot, fellow composer, and close friend Nicolas Nabokov. By exploring the ominous cultural landscape in which these fascinating individuals lived and worked, the book captures a pivotal twenty-five-year span (from approximately 1945 to 1970) during which modernists like Stravinsky and Auden confronted a tectonic disruption to their artistic worldview. Ultimately, Carter reveals how these stories fit into a larger third narrative, the 400-year history of opera. This richly and lovingly contextualized study of The Rake's Progress sheds new light on why, despite the hundreds of musical dramas and theater pieces that have been written since its premier in 1951, this work is still considered the "the last opera."

Author : Igor Stravinsky
Publisher : Overture Books
ISBN 13 : 9780714544441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oedipus Rex written by Igor Stravinsky and published by Overture Books. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9782881242953
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stravinsky written by Daniel Albright and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over het werk van de Russische componist (1882-1971).

Author : Martin Friedman
Publisher : Minneapolis : Walker Art Center ; New York : Abbeville Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Author : Constant Lambert
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774642700
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Author : W. H. Auden
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ISBN 13 : 9780571202607
Total Pages : 33 pages
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