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In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...
In six pages this radical 1913 Russian musical ballet is examined in terms of its composer's revolutionary vision and the extreme ...
appreciate; in doing so, he helped to educate the world on the merits of music through such classics as Petrushka. Stravinsky was...
the first to rebel against Wagners "oppressive hyperchromatic harmonic language," creating a more flexible and open tonal organiza...
five" (Alexander Borodin, Cesar Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modeste Mussorgsky, and Mily Balakirev) (Ursin). Prior to the Russi...
the realm of art music during the course of his career, George Gershwin. While Stravinskys work shows the influence of jazz, it wa...
but hopefully an understanding of the issues he raises and attempts to address throughout the book. Overview While well de...
2001). The final movement, which is similar to Symphony K. 338, consists of "lazy gallops" set to a fast-paced tempo, which, again...
codified and structured. Neoclassical forms were, in turn, a reaction against the idealism characterised by the Romantic ...