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Avatar of modernity : The rite of spring reconsidered
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Avatar of modernity : The rite of spring reconsidered

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"Centennial edition in three volumes"--Title page verso.
Published with: Le sacre du printemps : facsimile of the autograph full score; and, Le sacre du printemps : manuscript of the version for piano four hands : facsimile.
Includes brief contributor biographies.

Contents

Multifarious rites of passage, an introduction / Hermann Danuser and Heidy Zimmermann
I. A team's work
Diaghilev's Ballets russes : a new kind of company / Lynn Garafola
The shaman, the sage, and the sacrificial victim, and Nicholas Roerich's part in all / Paul Griffiths and Edmund Griffiths
The scandal at Le sacre : games of distinction and dreams of barbarism / Esteban Buch
II. Revolutionary potential
"... de la musique sauvage avec tout le confort moderne!" : the orchestral design of Le sacre du printemps / Tobias Bleek
Disrupted structures : rhythm, melody, harmony / Andreas Meyer
"... retrouver la source de variété ..." : Nijinsky's choreographic textures / Claudia Jeschke
III. Reflections on and of Le sacre
Remembering The rite of spring, or, "Ce que je n'ai pas voulu exprimer dans Le sacre du printemps" / Stephen Walsh
Everyone's Rite (1939-1946) / David Schiff
Rewriting The rite : creative responses to Le sacre du printemps / Jonathan Cross
IV. Toward histories of interpretation
Le sacre du printemps : milestones in dance / Stephanie Jordan
Vesna svyashchennaya in its homeland : reception of The rite in Russia and the Soviet Union / Svetlana Savenko
"sim not dim" : exécution and interprétation in recordings of The rite since 1929 / Arne Stollberg
Le sacre analyzed / Jonathan W. Bernard
Boulez's Rite / Robert Pencikowksi
V. Cultural, historical, and musical contexts
The cultural memory of Le sacre du printemps / Jan Assmann
Mythic sacrifices and real corpses : Le sacre du printemps and the Great War / Herfried Münkler
Kingdom of mystery : the artistic ideas of Nicholas Roerich / John E. Bowlt
How The rite became possible / Richard Taruskin.

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