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Le sacre du printemps, Background - Coggle Diagram
Le sacre du printemps
Texture (page 294)
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melody-dominated homophony, with richly layered accompaniment fig 25
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Introduction
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Bassoon has a high, recognizable melody at the start
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Background
Fired up from his runaway success with the Ballets Russes’s production of The Firebird, the young Stravinsky had a startling vision for his next work: ‘I saw in imagination a solemn pagan rite: wise elders, seated in a circle, watching a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of spring.’ What followed was one of the 20th century’s most celebrated musical scandals. Stravinsky assaulted bourgeois ears with his ‘modern primevalism’, music that was abrasively new and yet atavistic, somehow linked to a distant past. Conductor Leonard Bernstein famously called it ‘prehistoric jazz’.
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