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Author : Carl Kristian Wiens
Release : 1997
Genre : Ballets
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Book Synopsis Igor Stravinsky and Agon by : Carl Kristian Wiens
Download or read book Igor Stravinsky and Agon written by Carl Kristian Wiens. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Kristian Wiens
Release : 1997
Genre : Ballets
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Igor Stravinsky and Agon by : Carl Kristian Wiens
Download or read book Igor Stravinsky and Agon written by Carl Kristian Wiens. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles M. Joseph
Release : 2011-03-08
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Stravinsky and Balanchine by : Charles M. Joseph
Download or read book Stravinsky and Balanchine written by Charles M. Joseph. This book was released on 2011-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Igor Stravinsky and George Balanchine, among the most influential artists of the twentieth century, together created the music and movement for many ballet masterpieces. This engrossing book is the first full-length study of one of the greatest artistic collaborations in history. Drawing on extensive new research, Charles M. Joseph discusses the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballets against a rich contextual backdrop. He explores the background and psychology of the two men, the dynamics of their interactions, their personal and professional similarities and differences, and the political and historical circumstances that conditioned their work. He describes the dancers, designers, and sponsors with whom they worked. He explains the two men's approach to the creative process and the genesis of each of the collaborative ballets, demolishing much received wisdom on the subject. And he analyzes selected sections of music and dance, providing examples of Stravinsky's working sketches and other helpful illustrative materials. Engagingly written, the book will be of great interest not only to music and dance historians but also to ballet lovers everywhere.
Author : Jacob Fitzpatrick
Release : 2020
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Book Synopsis Stravinsky, Balanchine, and Agon by : Jacob Fitzpatrick
Download or read book Stravinsky, Balanchine, and Agon written by Jacob Fitzpatrick. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agon (1957) is a ballet with music composed by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. If we understand Agon as an interdisciplinary work, one consideration is how to address music and dance in a way that allows us to form meaningful connections between the two. One such link between music and dance is the concept of movement. While there are many ways that we can discuss movement, one prominent form of movement analysis is called Laban Movement Analysis (LMA). The LMA branch of effort can form a connection between music and dance because it addresses not the bodily or spatial patterns of movement, but rather the qualitative ones. As a case study, this dissertation focuses on a single dance in Agon, the Saraband Step. Chapter 1 begins with Stravinsky's score and considers what it means to understand music as movement. Chapter 2 introduces LMA and shows how we can hear effort in music by using the four motion factors (weight, time, space, flow). Chapter 3 explores the mimetic hypothesis. It then uses this hypothesis to bridge our understanding of effort that we hear in music to effort that we see in dance. Chapter 4 is an analysis of Balanchine's choreography and shows how the choreography forms a narrative with movement and space. And finally, Chapter 5 introduces the notion of choreomusicality. It explains how effort can be a tool that invites us to discover choreomusical relationships between music and dance.
Author : Joseph N. Straus
Release : 2004-03-25
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Stravinsky's Late Music by : Joseph N. Straus
Download or read book Stravinsky's Late Music written by Joseph N. Straus. This book was released on 2004-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to be devoted to the music of Stravinsky's last compositional period.
