Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Sacrificial Dance

Title :Igor Stravinsky ,The Rite of Spring - Sacrificial Dance

From Wikipedia,The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre du Printemps (Russian: Весна священная, Vesna svjaščennaja) is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, and original set design and costumes by archaeologist and painter Nicholas Roerich, all under impressario Serge Diaghilev. The music is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest, most influential, and reproduced compositions in history. It is iconic for 20th century classical or avant garde European music, with innovative complex rhythmic structures, timbres, and use of dissonance. The scandal of a riot at its 1913 premier, caused by its innovative technique and content, made it one of the most internationally well known and controversial works in performance historyThe music for Le Sacre du Printemps is regarded as one of the pinnacles of human intellectual achievement. Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, in his Six Talks at Harvard, said of one passage, That page is sixty years old, but its never been topped for sophisticated handling of primitive rhythms, and of the work as a whole, its also got the best dissonances anyone ever thought up, and the best asymmetries and polytonalities and polyrhythms and whatever else you care to name.The Rite of Spring is a series of episodes depicting a wild pagan spring ritual: "... the wise elders are seated in a circle and are observing the dance before death of the girl whom they are offering as a sacrifice to the god of Spring in order to gain his benevolence," said Stravinsky, of the imagery that prompted the genesis of the work. Though the music is capable of standing alone, and was a great success in the concert hall, in conception it is inextricably tied to the action on stage. The Rite is divided into two parts with the following scenes (there are many different English translations of the original titles; the ones given are Stravinsky's preferred wording[citation needed] followed by the original French in parenthesis.

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[GODMONSTERRARGH]

3/16, 5/16, 3/16, 4/16, 5/16. This guy was insane.

[mrdutchmandan]

@MrOwenmorg Correction: it actually has rhythmic intensity and syncopation, unlike a lot of other Classical music that has boring/simple rhythms

[obiwanobiwan13]

It's like if an entire orchestra SCREAMED...

Which can be jarring at first, and yet, once you get past that initial jolt, you realize just how much raw emotion is in this surprisingly-calculated piece...

It's certainly one of the most innovative pieces I've listened to, it's not Mozart or Beethoven or Tchaikovsky, but it's not trying to be, and for what it's trying to be, it succeeds with flying colors (if the Devil existed, he'd NEVER have this as his theme--too wicked for HIM!)

;)

[Nobodyknowsme021]

This caused a riot back in 1913 when it was first performed.

[h4s4t4n]

Very mathematical. I love this. It's like the mathcore of classical music.

[TheLVB1827]

@zigifrojd lol i thought the same thing initially. now this piece is revolutionary for me. give it another chance in a couple weeks. Watch the ballet from the begining too (ninjinsky's original choreography of course)

haha, i wouldn't call this classical music either, think it premeired 1913. The French were not pleased

[TheMormonSorceress]

@thepinksomething Be glade this peace wasn't in the origonal Fantaisa. Probaly wold have tromitied the kids more than Night on Bald Mountain.

[1212boochie]

Wow ... some people have a very small idea of what is music. Quit listining to the beber and that fucking friday song and find out what music really is. Ignorance

[zigifrojd]

I only listen classical, but this is terrible, I would rather listen death metal which I hate than this, death metal would sound better than this. I honestly think you can go insane from this. My head hurts.

[TheLVB1827]

@MrOwenmorg not that you can follow

[thepinksomething]

This song makes my balls wet

[nottheissue1]

It's currently finals week and this song is playing constantly in my head.