Building Blocks

Author: Gretchen Horlacher
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195370864

Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky

A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. Download Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the twentieth century to achieve an entirely new and truly modern aesthetic. Striking a remarkable concurrence of stasis and discontinuity, Stravinsky crafted large-scale compositions out of short repeating melodies, juxtaposed these primary motives with contrasting and varying fragments, and layered on fixed ostinati which repeated at their own rates throughout the piece. Previous scholarship on Stravinsky focuses on the disparate and independent nature of such textures, conceiving them as separated and deadlocked, unable to escape their repetitions, and having Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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