The Music of Stravinsky

Pieter C. van den Toorn is professor of music emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, in1938, he attended Amherst College and Harvard University before studying for several years with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. Subsequently, in 1986, he recieved his phD in music from University of California, at Berkeley. His books include The music of Igor Stravinsky (1983), Stravisnky and "The Rite of Spring" (1987), Music, Politics, and the Academy (1995), Stravinsky and the Russian Period (2012), with John McGinness, and Simply Stravinsky (2020). Stravisnsky and "The Rite of Spting" won the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Award and the outstanding of the Society for Music Theory.

1. Some Characteristics of Stravinsky’s Diatonic Music 2. Taruskin’s Angle 3. Stravinsky Re-barred 4. What’s in a Motive? 5. Neoclassism and Its Definitions 6. Will Stravinsky Survive Postmodernism? 7. Stravinsky, Les Noces (Svadebka), and the Prohibition against Expressive Timing 8. The Sounds of Stravinsky 9. Stravinsky, Adorno, and the Art of Displacement 10. The Rite of Spring Briefly Revisited: Thoughts on Stravinsky’s Stratifications, the Psychology of Meter, and African Polyrhythm 11. Individual and ‘Class Generality’: Reflections on the Post-War Years of Babbitt, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky