Stravinsky, Le Sacre Du Printemps, Mvmt.1

Question 1

What is a musical chameleon?

Answer 1

Composer able to change style as studies with many

Question 2

What was Stravinsky’s style?

Answer 2

Distinct Russian style

Question 3

When was the outbreak of stravinsky’s neoclassical work?
Where did he live, and what were their influences?

Answer 3

Fled to Switzerland at outbreak of WW1
Paris: impressionist
USA (Hollywood lifestyle)

Question 4

What was Le Sacre du Printemps composed for?

Answer 4

Ballet

Question 5

What were the 3 Russian ballets a collaboration with?
What were they?

Answer 5

Ballet Russes
The firebird (1910)
Petruskka (1911)
The Rite of Spring (1913)

Question 6

What are 3 of Stravinsky’s neoclassical works?

Answer 6

The Rakes Progress (1951)
Symphony of Psalms (1930)
Orpheus (1947)

Question 7

What wider listening links Le Sacre du Printemps with Petals?
How?

Answer 7

8 songs for a mad king by Pieter Maxwell Davies
New directions
Strange use of instruments

Question 8

What was the sentiment of music at the time?
What are 4 examples of this?

Answer 8

Deeply nationalist

Finlandia, Sibelius
Pomp & Circumstance, Elgar
Peer Gynt, Grieg
Dad Lieder von Erde, Maher

Question 9

What pieces by Strauss were also had deep nationalist sentiment?

Answer 9

Sprock Zarathustra
Alpine Symphony

Question 10

What era was Stravinsky on the edge of?
What were it’s elements?

Answer 10

Romantic 1780 - 1910
Increased orchestra size
Increased experiment, decoration & ornamentation

Question 11

What are 2 romantic era wider listenings?

Answer 11

Symphonie Phantastique, Berlioz (1830)
Sprach Zarathustra, Strauss (1896)

Question 12

How was Le Sacre du Printemps received in its opening night?

Answer 12

Badly
Conservative audience riot in protest

Question 13

What was Le Sacre su Printemps an interpretation of?

Answer 13

Modernist impression of Russian folk life

Question 14

What does Le Sacre du Printemps depict?

Answer 14

Young girl dances herself to death
Sacrificed to god of spring

Question 15

What is the starting theme?

Answer 15

Sped up Lithuanian wedding folk song melody

Question 16

How strict is the time?
WL

Answer 16

Rubato & tempo rubato (borrowed time)
Debussy:
‘tempo’ - take time
‘metro rubato’ - take back

Question 17

Describe the intervals

Answer 17

Angular: dim, aug, minor
Makes it unpleasant

Question 18

Why is the music free to the players?

Answer 18

Improv

Question 19

Describe the intervals

Answer 19

Wide leaps

Question 20

Dudki meaning
How is it used in mvmt. 1?

Answer 20

Pipes
Opening Dudki uses instruments as if in native sound world

Question 21

What we’re the strings subordinate to?

Answer 21

Wing & brass

Question 22

How were the instruments used?
Example

Answer 22

Unusually
Bassoon high tessitura (opening solo)

Question 23

What are some of the playing techniques? (4)

Answer 23

Pitzz
Arco
Flutter tongue
Tremolo

Question 24

How is the sound thinned in bar 57?
Why does it have this effect?

Answer 24

Double basses split into 6 different parts
One double bass on one note each only

Question 25

Describe the cross rhythms?

Answer 25

Complex

Question 26

Why was the rhythm hard for the dancers to dance to?

Answer 26

Constantly changing time signature/metre

Question 27

When is the tempo most free?

Answer 27

Intro

Question 28

What are the two different rhythms?

Answer 28

Extensive tuplet rhythms Some syncopated rhythms

Question 29

What is unpredictable about syncopation?

Answer 29

Don’t know when notes will occur

Question 30

What is bitonality? WL

Answer 30

Two keys at once VW

Question 31

What scale is used? What genre is this commonly used with? WL

Answer 31

Whole tone Folk song VW & Debussy

Question 32

What is the key?

Answer 32

No fixed key

Question 33

When is there a false relation? How? What is the effect of this? What can this be linked with?

Answer 33

Bar 2 C# & C natural Gives maj/min ambiguity religious link

Question 34

Why is there an unpleasant sound?

Answer 34

Dissonance

Question 35

What is parallel harmony? What feel does this give? What music genere is it linked with? WL

Answer 35

Parallel movement of 2 or more melodies Pastoral Folk song VW

Question 36

How is a canvas/wall of sound created?

Answer 36

Melodies & rhythms overlap

Question 37

What is the starting texture? Why? What happens to the texture after?

Answer 37

Monophonic Bassoon solo Grows from there

Question 38

What is the texture mostly?

Answer 38

Contrapuntal Melodies playing in conjunction with each other

Question 39

What is the title of Mvmt.1?

Answer 39

Intro L’Adoration de la Terre