Stravinsky

Title: Stravinsky
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music | Words: 1184 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Stravinsky

Into the 20th century with Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, a Russian-American composer, was one of the mosst innovative composers of the 20th century. He led the way for other composers allowing them to break free from the traditional orchestral pieces and to follow their own path. He was composing in a time where impressionist art was being replaced with a new group of artists called Les Fauves (the wild beasts). Their distortions of raw, vivid …showed first 75 words of 1184 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1184 total…on, changing to a more neoclassical style, and towards the end of his career became interested in serialism. Stravinsky has added much to the musical world, such as changing metrical patterns and ostinato as well as evolving polychords,polyrhythms, polymeters, and poly tonality. As a dominant musical force of the 20th century, Stravinsky found a way to inspire an audience. Whether good or bad, people have come to form their own opinions about his music.

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