Building Blocks: Repetition and Continuity in the Music of Stravinsky
Author:   Gretchen Horlacher (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Indiana University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780195370867


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   26 May 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Gretchen Horlacher (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Indiana University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.496kg
ISBN:  

9780195370867


ISBN 10:   0195370864
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   26 May 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter One. The First Movement of Three Pieces for String Quartet: A Shaking and Cracking of Dancing Bones Chapter Two. Connecting the Blocks Chapter Three. Stravinsky's Stutter Chapter Four. Multiple Melodies: Stravinsky's Superimpositions Chapter Five. A Sounding Together: Ordered Succession Across the Symphonies of Wind Instruments

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<br> [An] illuminating study...A quietly persuasive, stimulating, and, above all, constructive <br>contribution to a field of inquiry that has seen more than its share of squawking. --Richard Taruskin, Journal of Music Theory<p><br>


A significant contribution to our appreciation of Stravinsky's music, Gretchen Horlacher's study could be read with profit by musicians, students, and scholars interested in Stravinsky's music, in twentieth-century music, and music analysis in general. * Katerina Levidou, Music and Letters *


[An] illuminating study...A quietly persuasive, stimulating, and, above all, constructive contribution to a field of inquiry that has seen more than its share of squawking. --Richard Taruskin, Journal of Music Theory


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Gretchen Horlacher holds a Ph.D. in music theory from Yale University and is currently Associate Professor of Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University-Bloomington. She has published on the music of Stravinsky, Bartók, and Steve Reich, and on issues of rhythm and meter.

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