Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Carl Van Vechten, Marie Rambert, Dmitri Shostakovich
20 Dec 2016
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Looks at a musical work"s reception and distribution, including commentary on the work at the tie of its premiere and through subsequent performances and publications it also at technologies of production and reproduction. Group work: prepare a skit/presentation involving all your group members which reflects an episode in reception history. Russian dancer"s latest offering, the consecration of spring, a failure. Manager of theatre takes this means to stop hostile demonstrations as dance goes on. Premier in paris -people paid double price for the ticket. When first performed, at the th tre des champs- lys es on 29 may 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation and a near-riot in the audience. The rite of the spring transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for stravinsky"s enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design.
