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1. Igor Stravinsky - An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky | |
Hardcover: 196
Pages
(2008-11-04)
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What a delightful way for any music lover to learn about the first half of Stravinsky's great career. |
2. Coco Chanel&Igor Stravinsky by Chris Greenhalgh | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2009-12-01)
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Story does not match the writing style
A FIERY LOVE STORY |
3. Poetics Of Music In The Form Of Six Lessons by Igor Stravinsky | |
Hardcover: 152
Pages
(2008-11-04)
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Cretinous verbal diarrhea
much chaff and a little wheat
Clear your writer's block
Essential reading for Stravinsky devotees, but requires some background and additional reading
about art by an artist |
4. Igor Stravinsky (20th Century Composers) by Michael Oliver | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2008-04-23)
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The little known Stravinsky
A Accurate Account of A 20th Century Master First of all, the book is well written. The music is described thoroughly and there is also a discography as well as a catalogue of the works written by Stravinsky. For the most part, this book is a biography with its central focus on Stravinsky. We meet various characters that played an important role in Stravinsky's life including the impresario Serge Diaghilev. I highly recommend this book to anybody who wants to be enlightened about one of the giants of twentieth century music. ... Read more |
5. Petrushka (Dover Miniature Scores) by Igor Stravinsky | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(1999-07-02)
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good
original score
Petrushka |
6. Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 by Stephen Walsh | |
Paperback: 720
Pages
(2002-10-07)
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At last - the definitive Stravinsky
A fascinating new biography
A revealing biography of a brilliant composer. |
7. Music of Igor Stravinsky (Composers of the Twentieth Century) by Pieter C. Van Den Toorn | |
Hardcover: 514
Pages
(1983-03)
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8. Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention by Professor Charles M. Joseph | |
Hardcover: 416
Pages
(2002-05-01)
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I live with this book.It is a masterful work. |
9. Stravinsky Inside Out by Professor Charles M. Joseph | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(2001-09-01)
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A CONTROVERSIAL BUT REVEALING PORTRAIT OF PERHAPS THE GREATEST 20TH CENTURY COMPOSER
Fluff
Thoughtful, fresh, and controversial In response to Craig Matteson... everyone is entitled to their opinon (and of course, no better place to put one's opinon but in a review).However, Mr. Matteson was off on one point (well, in my opinon, he was off on MANY points, but I'll only discuss one).Joseph has written a very thorough book entitled Stravinsky and the Piano in which he studies Stavinsky's "actual piano music performance scores" in detail - fingerings and markings included.Maybe Mr. Matteson is unaware of this book because it is only available to music scholars, which quite obviously, he is not.So it makes perfect sense to me why Joseph did not include such information in this book.A) he already wrote a book about this, and B) this book is about Stravinsky's split lives (the person vs. the public composer) - therefore the scores and fingerings are obtuse.
Worth reading, some great points, but ... Why is it important at all that we point out moments or even decades of pettiness, vainglory, or difficult family relations? How exactly is that supposed to help us understand the art? Why not write a book about a fellow named Bob who lives down your down the street and his ordinary to miserable life? Of course, we don't write about Bob down the street because he is ordinary and he isn't Stravinsky. Haven't we long ago realized that even Stravinsky the composer is something other than Stravinsky the husband, father, or businessman. Of course extraordinary people have much about them that is quite ordinary. Some feel that knowing the artist as a human being helps us understand his art.Maybe on the margins it could, but only children believe that a composer was necessarily sad when writing a sad piece or happy when writing a happy piece and so on.Nothing Mr. Joseph tells us about the composition of The Flood helps us understand how it comes out of a Stravinsky. (Even if the author is trying to put forward that in this case it DIDN'T come out of Stravinsky). Don't get me wrong, this book by Charles Joseph isn't bad. Really, it has much to recommend it and I am glad that I read it and hope you do too. But I was frustrated by the mixing in of well known stories and photographs into a book that claimed to be revealing new things based upon new access to Stravinsky's papers and artifacts in Basel. It isn't that there isn't anything new or semi-new, it is that it isn't set apart from the ho-hum there's that old chestnut again regurgitation of Stravinsky tales. It is like going to a dinner party and listening across the table to a very knowledgeable guest who tells a few enthralling tales about a very interesting subject, but then spoils the enchantment by going on too long by telling a few too many tales that have no spark or wit about them. Joseph also doesn't follow up on things that ARE really interesting. For example, when he discusses the actual piano music performance scores that Stravinsky used and the interesting fingerings the composer used as a performer. But we don't get a picture of even one page of those piano scores nor do we get even a hint as to why Stravinsky's written in fingerings are telling. As a pianist of sorts, I can surmise why Stravinsky's fingerings would be interesting, but it would be nice to get even a bit of discussion on such an interesting topic. I would have traded all of those re-printed pictures for one or two of the actual new material and one page of the marked-up piano music. Yes, there is a 1983 text available through ProQuest that talks about Stravinsky's piano music, but Mr. Joseph indicates in the book that there were new things learned from his seeing the materials in Switzerland.In any case, this book is generally available and his 1983 book is not.Again, why reprint the nude photo of Stravinsky that is NOT original to this book and leave out something that would be valuable and a real contribution such as Stravinsky's piano fingerings? It would be a real service if Mr. Joseph (or SOMEONE) put together an edition of the piano works with those fingerings in them. Not that pianists will necessarily use those precise fingerings, but they would certainly aid in understanding how the composer himself interpreted the piece. Especially annoying to me was yet another tired discussion about Robert Craft. Mr. Joseph does demonstrate that Mr. Craft did play a significant role in the genesis of Stravinsky's work "The Flood". The author approaches the point of almost intimating that Craft is at least the co-composer of "The Flood", but never is bold enough to make that accusation. My guess is because for all the support and creative priming that Craft provided for Stravinsky, the evidence is that the composer did indeed compose the music himself. For heaven's sake, every composer since music began based it on some other creative spark or borrowed a theme from another work or even included suggestions from performers for whom the work was written. Composition is not done in a vacuum chamber on the dark side of the moon! However, anyone who knows anything at all about Stravinsky's output from the fifties onward knows that Craft did us all a tremendous service. Why anyone wants to criticize Craft is beyond me. Unless someone wants to make the case that Stravinsky simply signed his name to Craft's scores and present real evidence they should either whine to people who care or thank Craft for the music he enabled Stravinsky to make in the fifties and sixties. All in all, it easy for us in our age of sarcasm and witless irony to see the flaws of books that extol our favorite composers as heroes or as flawless paragons of humanity. My suspicion is that it won't take too many more years for people to turn their backs on the recent spate of books that take as their mission the whittling down of the tree of the great artist to a toothpick of a human. It is just too easy to write about human failings. We don't learn much at all about the art from such books and they are tiresome to read. Finally, I am curious about the surmise that I am not a music scholar?By what definition?In europe a student is a scholar.Over here, what is the definition of a scholar?One who agrees with your points of view?I happen to have spent seven years at the University of Michigan School of Music and have a degree in music theory and several years of graduate school before my life took a different direction.But I have always played my piano and kept up on music.So, my views are not uninformed.
He was his own greatest composition |
10. Conversations with Igor Stravinsky by Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft | |
Hardcover: 162
Pages
(1959)
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A must read for anyone interested in musical culture in the 20th century
Musical Masterpiece |
11. Les Noces in Full Score by Igor Stravinsky | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(1998-06-25)
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Quality and large size at an unbelievably good price. The volume is more sturdilyconstructed and in a much larger format than the Boosey and Hawkes scoresof Stravinsky pieces; my "Persephone", while it is a beautifuledition, is small, expensive, and falling apart despite careful treatment. ... Read more |
12. Concerto per Due Pianoforti (1935) by Igor Stravinsky | |
Paperback:
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(2010-01-01)
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13. The Rite of Spring in Full Score by Igor Stravinsky | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(1989-01-01)
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Best gift for a musician
Simply put - a great score
Now THIS is what you call modern music!
Great Cheap Score
Well Worth The Money! |
14. The Music of Stravinsky (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Stephen Walsh | |
Paperback: 328
Pages
(1993-05-27)
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authoritative |
15. Music of Igor Stravinsky (Composers of the Twentieth Century) by Pieter C. Van Den Toorn | |
Hardcover: 514
Pages
(1983-03)
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16. 3 Pieces for Clarinet Solo (Music Sales America) | |
Paperback: 8
Pages
(1992-01-01)
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17. Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works through <i>Mavra</i>, Two-volume set by Richard Taruskin | |
Hardcover: 1800
Pages
(1996-07-15)
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On shaky ground
Essential reading
debunking the myth I did not give the book 5 stars because I reserve that forthe rarest of rarities which are reserved for books/movies/cds whichprovoke thought in the most unexpected of ways and are unlike anything elselike the movie "Being John Malkovich". Another insightful andrecent book on early Stravinsky (purely biographical) is Stephen Walsh's"Stravinsky : A Creative Spring : Russia and France, 1882-1934". ... Read more |
18. Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934-1971 by Stephen Walsh | |
Paperback: 738
Pages
(2008-03-03)
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Detailed, but, thankfully, not exhaustive.
Not the best work on Stravinsky
The apex of the biographer's art
A valuable second volume of an important biography of Stravinsky
Exhaustive Biography of Stravinsky from 1934 to His Death |
19. Catherine and Igor Stravinsky: A Family Chronicle 1906-1940 by Theodore Stravinsky, Denise Stravinsky | |
Hardcover: 162
Pages
(2004-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description Written by the composer’s eldest son Theodore, along with Theodore’s wife Denise, these intimate memoirs take us to the very heart of the Stravinsky family home in the years up to the Second World War. This chronicle also contains a wealth of family photographs, revealing the composer not as the often-forbidding figure of the official photographic record, but as a husband and father at play and at work in the midst of a large and vibrant family. In this loving but clear-sighted picture of a family who counted among their friends a glittering cross-section of the twentieth century’s social and cultural elite, this fascinating biography provides a privileged insight into the home behind the public triumphs of one of the undisputed geniuses of modern music. |
20. Igor and Vera Stravinsky: A Photograph Album, 1921 to 1971 | |
Hardcover: 144
Pages
(1982-12)
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