MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ostinato, Melodic Motion, Melodic Pattern
18 Mar 2016
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The rite of spring: most famous premiere in western music industry, nearly set off a riot, music composed by igor stravinsky, originally a ballet but also performed in the concert hall o. The ballet depicts ancient slavic rituals enacted by a primitive tribe in prehistoric times. The pagan rites are enacted in order to appease the earth and ensure that spring will come again. At the end of the ballet, a chosen sacrificial victim is required to dance herself to death so that the earth will be fertile. The ballet is a reflection of a tend we now call primitivism, a movement that valued the arts of non- The ballet is supposed to look and sound primitive and ritualistic (although it uses entirely new and modern sounds) The choreo is deliberately just the opposite of what we expect from a ballet, all group movements, flat-footed, knock-kneed.
