The Rite of spring at 100 /edited by Severine Neff, Maureen Carr, and Gretchen Horlacher, with John Reef.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword: a total artwork: memorable resonances and reverberations in The rite -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial notes -- Introductory essay: Stravinsky's Russia and the politics of cultural ferment -- Part I. Dancing Le sacre across the century. 1. A century of Rites: the making of an avant-garde tradition ; 2. The rite of spring as a dance: recent re-visions ; 3. Re-sourcing Nijinsky: The rite of spring and Yvonne Rainer's RoS indexical ; 4. Death by dancing in Nijinsky's Rite -- Part II. Le sacre and Stravinsky in France. 5. Le sacre du printemps: a ballet for Paris ; 6. Styling Le sacre: The rite's role in French fashion ; 7. The rite of spring, national narratives, and estrangement ; 8. Formalizing a "purely acoustic" musical objectivity: another look at a 1915 interview with Stravinsky ; 9. Racism at The rite -- Part III. Observations on Le sacre in Russia. 10. Commentary and observations on Le sacre in Russia: an overview ; 11. Stravinsky, Roerich, and old Slavic rituals in The rite of spring ; 12. Orchestral sketches of Le sacre du printemps in the National Library of Russia ; 13. Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov: his analytical comments on The rite of spring ; 14. Leonard Bernstein's 1959 triumph in the Soviet Union ; 15. The rite of spring in Russia ; 16. "I penetrated the mystery of the spring lapidary rhythms": Baroque topoi in The rite of spring ; 17. "The great sacrifice": contextualizing the dream ; 18. An interview with composer Vladimir Tarnopolski -- Part IV. The sounds of Le sacre. 19. The physicality of The rite: remarks on the forces of meter and their disruption ; 20. How not to hear Le sacre du printemps? Schoenberg's theories, Leibowitz's recording ; 21. Rethinking blocks and superimposition: form in the "Ritual of the two rival tribes" ; 22. Stravinsky at the crossroads after The rite: "Jeu de rossignol mécanique" (Performance of the mechanical nightingale) (1 August 1913) ; 23. Dissonant bells: The rite's "Sacrificial dance" 1913/2013 ; 24. Revisiting The rite in Stravinsky's later serial music ; 25. Dionysos Monometrikos plenary essay: Resisting The rite -- Bibliography -- List of contributors -- General index -- Index of composers and their works -- Index of choreographers.

When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as distinguished music and dance scholars discuss the meaning of the work and its far-reaching influence on world music, performance, and culture. Essays explore four key facets of the ballet: its choreography and movement; the cultural and historical contexts of its performance and reception in France; its structure and use of innovative rhythmic and tonal features; and the reception of the work in Russian music history and theory.

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