By Robin Maconie
In
Experiencing Stravinsky, tune historian Robin Maconie takes a clean method of figuring out this nice composer’s works, explaining what makes Stravinsky’s sound designated and what we, as listeners, want to know with a view to delight in the range and brilliance of his compositions. Experiencing Stravinsky is greater than simply one other paintings of track appreciation. within the author’s deft arms, Stravinsky’s lengthy musical profession is a guided journey via 20th-century heritage, from Czarist Russia and global wars to the peak of the Hollywood period and the start of the knowledge age. Maconie has supplied not anything lower than an working handbook to getting the main out of Stravinsky’s music.
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