Igor Stravinsky Rite Of Spring Analysis

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Igor Stravinsky’s ballet/orchestral work, The Rite of Spring was quite different than what people were used to. The story of it deals with the prehistoric times of Russia when they were pagans. Each year they had to sacrifice a woman who is a virgin to make the gods happy so that the rest of the society could survive and grow. The girl that is chosen is made to dance until she dies. On the first night this was performed, a riot broke out because the audience couldn’t believe what they were hearing or seeing. The dancers could barely even hear the music because the audience was going crazy, but Nijinsky kept them going (http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-rite-of-spring-story-analysis-composer-music.html) The Rite of Spring was definitely an influential musical piece for the 20th …show more content…

This occurs in the end of the Part 2 video and all of the Part 3 video provided by the journal prompt sheet. At the beginning there are a lot of chords that are being played in many keys and then this leads the strings being played. Afterwards, we see the girls in a circle, one of which is going to get chosen to be the sacrifice. When the girl is chosen, there is a huge, very exciting dance that has horns and a drum to glorify her. Afterwards, the old men come. The music is quieter. Finally, at the end of Part 2 is when the girl, the chosen one, dances until she dies. The music is very crazy. It ends with her dying and them holding her up to the gods. This work compares to Michael Jackson’s Thriller because in both videos they are both a little “out there” and “scary”. Both wear odd costumes and are choreographed to percussive music. They both begin with a bassoon playing by itself at a very high pitch. It is amazing to me that these two works happened about 70 years apart, yet they have so many of the same characteristics. Both also have become such influential musical works for so many different composers. They both are incredible musical

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