1 jan 1913 ano - The Rite of Spring

Descrição:

a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company. The Rite of Spring is an example of Primitivism.

The Rite of Spring
1. The success of Petrushka turned Stravinsky back to the idea of a prehistory ballet, a
somewhat common theme among artists of the period.
2. Some of the tableaux are based on historical documents that describe aspects of
prehistorical worship practices.
3. Stravinsky sought maximal dissonance and sounded it through an extremely large
orchestra, which he used to brilliant effect.
4. One of the most remarkable elements of the Rite is that of innovations in rhythm.
a. The rhythmic innovations contribute to the “savagery” of the work.

Reactions to Two Ballets
1. Debussy’s Jeux and Stravinsky’s Rite were premiered within two weeks of each other.
2. Debussy’s work was not so successful, or at least notorious, and disappeared from the
stage until the mid-twentieth century.
3. Stravinsky’s work had more than the typical number of rehearsals—much more than Jeux.
4. The premiere of Rite is a thing of legend, although the details of exactly what happened are unclear.
5. The work has been described as Primitivism (appealing to savages/peasants/raw emotion and far removed from Romanticism)—and even Biologism (life is ultimately the sum of physicality). The latter challenged traditional religious beliefs.
6. With Stravinsky’s Rite being discussed in all the papers and elsewhere under such weighty consideration, Debussy’s Jeux dropped from such discussion altogether.
7. Debussy’s work is about trivial, everyday life—which is just as modern as Stravinsky’s neoprimitivism.
8. The music was also new, particularly in the way in which Debussy structured musical time.

Key term:

primitivism: a mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate "primitive" experience. In Western art, primitivism typically has borrowed from non-Western or prehistoric people perceived to be "primitive"

biologism: life is ultimately the sum of physicality

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