1st Edition
Collected Essays on Stravinsky and Classical Music
Introduction
Part I
1. A Case in Point: Context and Analytical Method in Stravinsky
2. Stravinsky by Way of Agon
3. From The Firebird to The Rite of Spring: Meter and Alignment in Stravinsky’s Russian-Period Works
4. The Physicality of The Rite: Remarks on the Forces of Meter and Their Disruption
Part II
5. Politics, Feminism, and Contemporary Music Theory
6. What Do Feminists Want? A Reply to Pieter van den Toorn (Ruth A. Solie)
7. What Price Analysis?
8. Schenker and His Critics
9. The Ninth and Beyond
10. Invoking Motives and Immediacy: Foils and Contexts for Pieter C. van den Toorn’s Music, Politics, and the Academy (Marianne Kielian-Gilbert)
Biography
Pieter C. van den Toorn is professor of music emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1938, he attended Amherst College and Harvard University before studying for several years with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. Subsequently, in 1986, he received his PhD in music from the University of California at Berkeley. His books include The Music of Igor Stravinsky (1983), Stravinsky and “The Rite of Spring” (1987), Music, Politics, and the Academy (1995), Stravinsky and the Russian Period (with John McGinness, 2012), Simply Stravinsky (2020), and The Music of Stravinsky: Collected Essays (2023). Stravinsky and “The Rite of Spring” won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award and the Outstanding Publication Award of the Society for Music Theory.
