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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Part 1

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Stravinsky's Symphony No. 1

Stravinsky was turning the tables on melodically driven music and making this piece almost entirely driven by its rhythm. This was a musical earthquake and certainly helped usher in the end of tonality, since composers soon realized that rhythmic drive and rhythmic propulsion could be just as strong of a musical line than a melody. In essence Stravinsky was taking the motivic cell idea of Beethoven and adding onto it crunching dissonances. It's no wonder that with these forces available to him Stravinsky creates some sounds that seem to come from a distant world.

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