Igor Stravinsky

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage was created by Edgar Degas, around 1874. Degas used oil paints mixed with turpentine, along with watercolor and pastel over pen-and-ink drawing. It is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Degas was a French artist who was most famous for painting and sculpting ballet dancers. He spent much of his time at the opera house, observing the dancers performing and practicing there. Degas did not always portray his dancers as the delicate,…

tuberculosis, he would visit her and take care of her but in-between be sleeping with another mistress. The drawing I’m doing is the linear drawing of Igor Stravinsky. It has nothing to do with his numerous mistresses or anything like that. Actually, not much is documented about this drawing other than the sketch was taken back to Switzerland by Stravinsky and was misconstrued as a spy plan. Despite all of these extra-marital activities and the way he treated women, Picasso was and still is…

soldiers would still need to be transported by ground from their point of injury to the airplane. A man named Igor Sikorsky however was about to introduce something that could overcome the limitations of the airplane. His successful design of the helicopter would draw interest from military leadership and become the spark that would ignite the future explosion of army helicopters. Igor himself highlighted the lifesaving capability of the helicopter as one of its greatest capabilities. The…

My essay today will focus on the history of Igor Stravinsky with my main concept and interest being on his early work “The Rite of Spring”. “The Rite of Spring” was a piece which caused Igor Stravinsky to go down in history as someone who challenged the norms of music and who changed music traditions forever. As you will see further on in my essay Stravinsky's innovative ideas were not initially loved and respected but instead frowned upon and hated. I can personally relate to some concepts…

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon did. Ground breaking can be controversial and dangerous when it is perceived as disrespectful and degrading. I will show how these two pieces of work from Igor Stravinsky and Picasso did just that all the while expanding the genres by the use of primitivism breaks from the norm. Igor Stravinsky was born in June of 1882 in Russia, he was a revolutionary composer whose works include Symphony in E-flat Major, The Faun and the Shepherdess, The Firebird and The Rite of…

turning point in the history of classical music. Tonal harmony of the Romance era have been replaced with the dissonant sounding atonality of many composers of the 20th century. The 20th century of classical music was led by Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Claude Debussy. These composers have created techniques that were unlike any other in the history of classical music. Arnold Schoenberg is known for a technique called the Twelve Tone Technique. This technique contains a row of twelve…

Plano Symphony Orchestra that was conducted by Hector Guzman. The event was for Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky is a Russian composer, and conductor He was born in Russia 1882. He is known to be one of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. “A study of his work automatically touches on almost every important tendency in the century's…

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian neoclassical composer born on June 17th, 1882. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia. Stravinsky died of congestive heart failure on April 6th, 1971 in New York, New York. He moved many times in his lifetime, but ended up gaining citizenship in the United States. Stravinsky’s musical influence came from how successful his father was with the bass. His household was full of musical and theatrical influences. He took piano lessons and studies music…

both create a sense of complexity that makes music so harmonic. Music is created through layers, and both rhythm and meter have layers. Music is, as explained in the book, propelled forward by rhythm, and makes time and duration so important. As Igor Stravinsky once said, "Rhythm and motion, not the element of feeling, are the foundations of musical art". This explains that rhythm is much more complex than something similar to meters. Rhythm cannot be without meters, as meters organizes the…

They both share the same genre of ballet. Both also seem to incorporate some form of nationalism. Copland seeks to inspire thoughts of the open American plains using his expansively free music, while Stravinsky evokes Pagan Russia using tribal, haunting notes. However, both pieces are also uniquely different. The Rite of Spring has diverse movements, each introducing a new rhythm and sounding completely unlike the last. In contrast, “Hoedown” begins with…