Ultimate Evolution of the Ballet Music a General Analysis on the Rite of Spring a Ballet Work By Igor Stravinsky

Abstract

Igor Stravinsky was the leading composer in the first decades of 20th Century. With his contribution to musical literature by his innovative technical usages as asymmetric rhythmic patterns, dry sound, dissonance usage, new harmonization techniques, direct expression and a different dimension on orchestration, Stravinsky redefined the understanding of music in an esthetical manner thorough his career. Le Sacre du Printémps, in English title the Rite of Spring is one of his works with whom he had been taken into consideration by classical music community in 1913. It is the work that he has built his musical brand with. In this work, the musical techniques which he used in the work in order to create a primitive scene will be discussed in a surface level. The impact that Stravinsky created will be shown by examples

Igor Stravinsky was the leading composer in the first decades of 20th Century. With his contribution to musical literature by his innovative technical usages as asymmetric rhythmic patterns, dry sound, dissonance usage, new harmonization techniques, direct expression and a different dimension on orchestration, Stravinsky redefined the understanding of music in an esthetical manner thorough his career. Le Sacre du Printémps, in English title the Rite of Spring is one of his works with whom he had been taken into consideration by classical music community in 1913. It is the work that he has built his musical brand with. In this work, the musical techniques which he used in the work in order to create a primitive scene will be discussed in a surface level. The impact that Stravinsky created will be shown by examples