Igor Stravinsky Essays Video
Episode 10: The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky Essays
Jump to navigation Jump to search The Cantata by Igor Stravinsky is a work for soprano, tenor, female choir, and instrumental Igor Stravinsky Essays of two flutesoboecor anglais doubling second oboeand celloand was composed from April to August The premiere performance on 11 November was by the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony Society to whom the work is dedicatedconducted by Stravinsky himself.
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After completing the opera The Igor Stravinsky Essays ProgressStravinsky felt the urge to compose another work setting English words, but in a non-dramatic form. Versus I. Prelude: 'This ae nighte'" Ricercar I. Stravnisky II. First interlude: 'If ever thou gav'st hos'n and shoon'" Ricercar II. Versus III. Versus IV. Postlude: 'If ever thou gav'st meat or drink'" For his texts, Stravinsky chose four anonymous fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poems found in, [2]an anthology of poetry presented to him as a Christmas gift by W. Auden, the librettist of his opera, The Rakes's Progress.
In between the verses of the dirge there are two ricercars Ricercar I sets "The maidens came"; Ricercar II sets the carol " Tomorrow shall be my dancing day "and a sixteenth-century song text, " Westron Wind ". Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works 2nd ed. Poets of the English Language. New York City: Viking.
College Park : University of Maryland. Further reading[ edit ] Burde, Wolfgang.]
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