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Listening Guide 64 CD: CHR/STD 7/34–42, SH 3/51–59

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Le sacre du printemps), Part II, excerpts (5:44)

DATE OF WORK: 1913

GENRE: Ballet (often performed as a concert piece for orchestra)

BASIS: Scenes of pagan Russia

SCENARIO: Nikolai Roerich and Igor Stravinsky

CHOREOGRAPHY: Vaslav Nijinsky

SECTIONS: Part I: Adoration of the Earth Part II: The Sacrifice Introduction Introduction Dance of the Youths and Maidens Mystic Circle of the Chosen One Game of Abduction Glorification of the Chosen One Spring Rounds Evocation of the Ancestors Games of the Rival Tribes Ritual Action of the Ancestors Procession of the Sage Sacrificial Dance Dance of the Earth

WHAT TO LISTEN FOR: Huge orchestral forces, with constantly changing timbral colors. Violent rhythmic conflicts (polyrhythm, changing meters, shifting accents). Short melodic motives exchanged among instruments. Modern, dissonant harmonic palette. Extreme dynamic contrasts.

Glorification of the Chosen One (1:35) Principal Instruments: Brass, percussion, and percussive strings Tempo: Vivo (very fast) Form: A-B-A�

0:00 A section—11 accented chords introduce loud and dissonant exchanges, swooping woodwind lines vs. strings, in shifting meters, with primitive accents alternating with steady eighth notes (reduced score, showing flutes, first violins, and double basses):

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0:20 Strings have 4-note descending fragment, bowed, then pizzicato:

0:34 B section—bass drum downbeats, answered by dissonant brass.

0:42 Pizzicato strings introduce new idea, heard against thundering timpani:

1:01 Woodwinds join strings, alternating with brass motive:

Pace slows to prepare for return of A section.

1:16 A� section—return of opening material, abridged.

Evocation of the Ancestors (0:40) Principal Instruments: Trumpets, bassoons, and percussion Tempo: Moderate Form: Repetitions of a single theme

0:00 Explosive attack, followed by accented rhythmic theme in block chords heard in trumpets and woodwinds; alternates betweeen 2/4 and 3/4 meter:

0:08 Answered by soft and short statement in strings, followed by percussive attack.

0:14 Extended statement of theme by trumpet and woodwinds, with string echo (pp), then percussive attack.

0:25 Bassoon section states theme (p).

0:34 Abbreviated statement (ff) by trumpets and woodwinds.

0:38 Slow bassoon passage leads to next section.

Ritual Action of the Ancestors (3:29) Principal Instruments: Woodwinds, brass, and percussion Tempo: Moderate Form: A-B-C-B�-A�

0:00 A section—begins with marchlike steady beat, pizzicato, with offbeats in timpani.

0:12 Slow, chromatic melodic fragments and held notes in English horn (then other woodwinds):

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Listening Guide 64 (Continued)

Steady marchlike beat fades out.

0:56 B section—flute, with wavering line, and bassoons set up accompaniment pattern.

1:10 Folklike melody in muted trumpets:

Violins play tremelos against steady accompaniment.

1:44 French horns play folklike melody, with full orchestra, at fortissimo.

1:56 C section—alternation of short, chromatic melodic ideas in orchestral dialogue.

2:23 B� section—folklike theme, played fortissimo, in French horns, with tremelos in strings and woodwinds; very dissonant.

2:42 A� section—return to opening idea, played by bass trumpet, answered by alto flute.

3:02 Clarinets have meandering line over steady, marchlike accompaniment leading to loud chord (beginning of Sacrificial Dance).

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Listening Guide 64 (Continued)