Ritual and abstraction in Nijinska's<i>Les Noces</i>

Johnson, Robert T.

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“…Intervention in the decoration of the performances was not necessary. The "academics" of theatrical painting knew their functions well and reproduced on the stage the established ideas about the scene: throne rooms, underwater kingdoms, and the like (Johnson, 1991). Fokine's reform, which reoriented the aesthetics of ballet performance, took into account the state of development of other arts, which contributed to the enrichment of ballet.…”

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Cultural aspects of the study of choreographic interpretations of I. Stravinsky's ballet “The Rite of Spring”

Portnova¹

2021

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The study of the cognitive process of recognising images (signs) that characterise the content component or emotion is necessary for artistic communication. On the one hand, an interpreter is a representative of a specific society, ethnos, a linguistic personality, a communicant in the historical and modern aspects. On the other hand, in the centre of the ballet is a human with his actions, attitude to other characters, thoughts, feelings and peculiarities of plastic intonations. Since artistic knowledge belongs to the human personality, it has a certain historical, cultural, including social, spacious-hour context. During the "Russian period" of creativity I. Stravinsky created more than twenty works of various genres. The research area does not include the folklorebased "Tale about the Fox, the Rooster, the Cat and the Ram" (1916), "The Tale of the Fugitive Soldier and the Devil, Read, Played and Danced" (1918), in which, along with singing, there was the choreographic action. One of the criteria for selecting material for research is the opportunity to see the choreographic solution of the original versions of the ballets created at Diaghilev's theatre-enterprise. Choreographic reconstructions of "Tales ..." and "Tales of a Soldier" were not undertaken. These scores were not as much in demand by choreographers as the four compositions regarded.

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Cultural aspects of the study of choreographic interpretations of I. Stravinsky's ballet “The Rite of Spring”

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2021

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Tiered Polyphony and Its Determinative Role in the Piano Music of Johannes Brahms

Auerbach¹

2008

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Tiered polyphony describes segments of music that manifest rhythmic/metric layering (Lester 1986) in the presence of polyphony. This texture, though a hallmark of the baroque era, is capable of generating a variety of musical effects over many style periods. This article establishes three categories of the texture based on degrees of metrical dissonance: weakly, moderately, and strictly tiered polyphony. The last form is special not only for its rarity but also for the extreme independence of its lines, which create supermetrical dissonance through pitch cells and/or pitch-interval cycles. Strictly tiered polyphony figures prominently in Brahms's piano music, where it lends passages an aura of extreme drive and inexorability. Importantly, awareness of this texture can provide insights into Brahms's works unavailable through conventional approaches. The analytical portion of this article examines the Two Rhapsodies, op. 79. The unusual harmonic structure of the G-minor rhapsody is read in light of 1-cycles present within the opening tiered polyphony. In the B-minor rhapsody, the content of three concurrent cycles at the opening—a 4-cycle, 1-cycle, and 5/7-cycle—is respectively reflected in the hexatonic organization of mm. 1–67, in the A section's stormy chromatic transitions, and in the cadential gestures that permeate the B section and coda.

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Ritual and abstraction in Nijinska'sLes Noces

Cited by 2 publications

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Cultural aspects of the study of choreographic interpretations of I. Stravinsky's ballet “The Rite of Spring”

Cultural aspects of the study of choreographic interpretations of I. Stravinsky's ballet “The Rite of Spring”

Tiered Polyphony and Its Determinative Role in the Piano Music of Johannes Brahms

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