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Where did Stravinsky attend school? Who did he continue as a private student of?
He attended the St. Petersburg conservatory but because of the 1905 revolution he left and became a private student of Rimsky-Korsakov
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As a young composer Stravinsky was unknown, but what piece put him on the map and how
He performed a short orchestral piece title "Fireworks" while Diaghilev was in teh audience
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Diaghilev commissioned Stravinsky with what
- The score for his projected ballet, "The Firebird"
- Stravinsky exceeded the highest expectations
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How is the make up of Stranvinsky's firebird
- Starts off with Korsakovian feeling but leaves to music of energy and originality.
- This is the precursor to him leading modernism
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What was the plot of The Firebird
Features Korsakov's evil Sorcerer Kashchei and Tsarevich who is to rescue a princess from Kashchei's castle with the help of a magical Firebird
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What represents each character in the FireBird
- Kashchei is represented by an octatonic scale and various chordal progressions
- Tsarevich is given a folk song base style
- The Firebird is given a oriental style
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Who made the set for Stravinsky's Petrushka
Alexander Benois
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What is the setting of Petrushka
A fair ground with entrepreneurs, a dancing bear, and the focus, a puppet show
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What is typical of ballet which is present in Petrushka and Tchaikovsky's nutcracker
Switching between he real world and fantasy
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Who did they discover Stravinsky had infringed on
Emile Spencer and her piece, Elle avait le jambe en bois (She had a wooden leg)
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How did Stravinsky treat folk songs within a musical phrase different than the handful
Melodies are heard in snatches, emerging in random fashion from the texture and sometimes along side other melodies
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How does Petrushka begin
It lacks a bass line, as if suspended in air
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Why does the bass line appear in Petrushka
To articulate three measures of melody (This is a fragment of the folk theme Dalalyn)
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What happens when the music of Petrushka breaks into a dance
Drunken revelers are now center stage and we can hear their theme clearly
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What interrupts the music of Petrushka
- A tritone and a speak like theme with many repeated notes
- This is the character of Balagannyi ded (Carnival barker who is the advertise)
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What does Stravinsky represent the barrel organ with
clarinets and flutes
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