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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Anyone concerned with modem music and culture must confront Igor Stravinsky the twentieth century’s most celebrated and controversial composer. Stravinsky’s genius for creative self-renewal led him from the revolutionary Rite of Spring to the severe neoclassicism of the Symphony in C and then in an equally unpredictabile metamorphosis to the serial techniques of his arch-rival Arnold Schoenberg. Com-fronting Stravinsky probes the mystery of why Stravinsky remains recognizably Stravinsky despite astonishing stylistic diversity. This question and other issues central to the composer’s life and work are here examined from a variety of perspectives breaking down the barriers of geography and discipline that have too long separated Stravinsky scholars. The contributors come from Europe Japan and through-out the United States. They include Stravinsky’s friends cultural historians musicologists music theorists and com posers as well as the pianolist Rex Lawson and the celebrated artist David Hockney. Confronting Stravinsky balances the bio-graphical and theoretical analyses that have dominated Stravinsky scholarship with points of view from cultural history aesthetics performance practice painting and dance. These essays began as contributions to the International Stravinsky Symposium (University of California San Diego) that celebrated the centenary of Stravinsky’s birth. In published form they offer the most ambitious and wide-ranging collec tion of essays on Stravinsky’s art ever published an indispensable overview of Stravinsky scholarship in the 1980s and one that furnishes new perspectives. (MP)