Neoclassicism as Ideology RICHARD TARUSKIN Scott Messing. example, the obsession with neo-classicism as in some sense a paradigm of the inner nature of pure creativity came from Stravinsky himself and was associated from the start ('Some Ideas about my Octuor'10) - and right through to the Poetics - with his rejection not only of romanticism but of precisely those Russian origins which it was ISBN 0-520-03985-8 (pbk). Reprinted in Eric Walter White, Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, second edition, 574–77. On the other hand, anyone who read his explanation of it would never anticipate any humor. Completes and premieres Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments. Not my own statement, but this one by Igor Stravinsky on his Octet for wind instruments is a gem. 101. ... ‘ “Chronicle of My Life”, by Igor Stravinsky ’. Something as counter-intuitive as weeping in response to music can ameliorate suffering for a time even for terminally ill patients. Stravinsky was notorious for saying different, seemingly-contradictory things about his own works at different times. The Music of Igor Stravinsky.

Alleging however that this music is ‘about’ a walk would rightly insult many knowledgeable music lovers and not in the least Stravinsky himself, who in his ‘Some Ideas about my Octuor’ outright scorns the thought that music is about anything at all. Stravinsky's Octet, written in 1923 and widely regarded as his first truly neoc.

I always think of Igor Stravinsky’s manifesto, “Some Ideas about my Octuor” (1923), as the founding document of the Organ Reform Movement: I have excluded from this work all sorts of nuances, which I have replaced by the play of these volumes … See also "Quelques Confidences sur la Musique" (1935), reprinted in White, Stravinsky, 535-39; and "Interview" (1938), also reprinted in White, Stravinsky, 539-41. Neoclassicism in Music: From the Genesis of the Concept through the Schoenberg/ Stravinsky Polemic. An art form from the mid-twentieth century in which one or more performers use some combination of visual arts (including video), theatre, dance, music, and poetry, often to dramatize political ideas. This object has a form and that form is influences by the musical matter with which it is composed. 4 "Some Ideas about My Octuor," The Arts (January 1924); reprinted in Eric Walter White, Stravinsky (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 528-30. 19 Igor Stravinsky, 'Some Ideas About My Octuor' printed in The Arts, January 1924; reprinted in Eric Walter White: Stravinsky: The Composer and his Works (London: Faber and Faber, 1966), 576 Back 20 As reported by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz in Wiadomosci Literackie (Warszawa) 1924, no. Moves with his family from Biarritz to Nice. He accompanied its appearance with a mock-forbidding manifesto, “Some Ideas about My Octuor” (using the French word for octet), which he published in a London arts magazine in January 1924. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Octet (Stravinsky) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The purpose is less to tell a story than to convey a state of being. Van den Toorn, Pieter C. 1983. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979. 'SOME IDEAS ABOUT MY OCTUOR' (Reprinted from The Arts, January 1924 1) My Octuor is a musical object. The Arts (January 1924). This explanation, “Some Ideas about my Octuor,” appeared in the January 1924 issue of The Arts, a London magazine. ... 4"Some Ideas about My Octuor," The Arts, January 1924, rpt. Studies in Musicology, No. The Arts 6, no. First concert tours, conducting in Belgium and Spain, and playing the concerto in Copenhagen, Warsaw, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and Marseille. Stravinsky’s Octuor for Wind Instruments (commonly known simply as the “Octet”) was written at a time in which the composer was beginning to experiment with more formal writing, a practice that would come to be known as Neo-Classicism.

(It was the first of many such publicity pieces with which Stravinsky sought to … Several benefits—including catharsis, communication, and experiencing vitality—can be associated with grieving in response to “sad” music. What Stravinsky wrote about the Octet Stravinsky’s Octet has a very facetious mood. In this passage from his "Some Ideas about my Octuor" (published 1966), Stravinsky summarizes his own perspective on the piece, and, more broadly, on the role of "interpretation" or "subjectivity" in all of his music. Here are some paragraphs, numbered and with the English improved by Richard Taruskin: My Octuor is not an “emotive” work but a musical composition based on objective elements which are sufficient in themselves. ... ‘ “Chronicle of My Life”, by Igor Stravinsky ’. Publishes ‘Some ideas about my Octuor’. This object has a form and that form is influenced by the musical matter with which it is composed. The differences of matter determine the differences of form. Stravinsky himself detested the term, calling it “a much abused expression meaning absolutely nothing.”