The Rite of Spring

by Igor Stravinsky

Book Overview

With this brilliant and uncompromising work -- perhaps the most famous musical work of the twentieth century -- Stravinsky changed the course of modern music forever. Discarding conventional harmonies for bizarrely dissonant chords, and uniform metrics for harshly jarring beat patterns, he created a sensational theater piece that, at the work's 1931 premier, caused the music world's most talked-about riot.
"Every law of musical syntax, every...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486411745
• ISBN13: 9780486411743
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.5"

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