Stravinsky's TopologyStravinsky's Topology is an innovative explanation of the music of the great composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Specifically, this book examines Stravinsky's implementation of certain twelve-tone row forms for particular formal events and to enhance the poetry in his later works with poetic texts. This book, reprinted from a doctoral dissertation, presents a new analytical method called Object-Oriented analysis to study Stravinsky's smaller works Epitaphium, Anthem, Elegy for J. F. K., Fanfare for a New Theater, and The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. The remainder of this book is devoted to a detailed examination of Stravinsky's expanded Object-Oriented compositional technique in The Flood and in his largest late work, Threni. This investigation concludes with remarks about how a conductor can apply Object-Oriented analysis in performance. 216 pages. |
Contents
Table of Contents | 12 |
Conventions Used in This Paper | 18 |
TABLE | 26 |
General Remarks about Stravinskys Serial Technique | 27 |
TABLE | 32 |
Stravinskys Row Succession | 37 |
Simple Application of Stravinskys Method in His Short | 39 |
TABLE 8 | 43 |
TABLE 17 | 56 |
The Owl and the PussyCat 196566 | 66 |
Analysis of Structure and MusicalPoetical Effect of Rows | 73 |
Conclusion | 82 |
Wrapped Repetitions form threedimensional Objects | 92 |
Various Intervals Create Several Different Object Types | 101 |
TABLE 45 | 106 |
CHAPTER 6 | 111 |
1959 | 45 |
TABLE 12 | 49 |
Elegy for J F K 1964 | 51 |
TABLE 51 | 113 |
CHAPTER 7 | 165 |
APPENDIX | 201 |
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ALEPH Alto Anthem Bass Bb C# Bb Eb Bb F# Bb G C# Bb C# Eb C# G Canticum sacrum chorus clarinet Claudio Spies Eb Bb Eb C# Eb Eb Eb F Eb F# elegia tertia Elegy for J. F. K. employs rows ending pitches Epitaphium F Bb F C# F Eb F F# F# E Eb F# Eb F# G Fanfare Flood formal foundational rows G Bb G C# G Eb G F# George Perle Graphical Representation hexachords last notes last pitches Lord Matrix int Object-Oriented analysis pitch classes Poetic Text Prime form Prime row profundis Pussy-Cat Querimonia Raoul Dufy RES(H Retrograde Inversion row succession rows beginning Rows Employed rows P-0 Schoenberg Second Object Sensus spei serial soprano Stravinsky employs Stravinsky’s row Stravinsky’s twelve-tone structure T. S. Eliot tenor TETH Third Object Threni De elegia TSADE twelve-tone compositions twelve-tone music twelve-tone technique vocal voices Warren Benson