What Makes Stravinsky's Music Revolutionary?

[@juanbatista5302]

Every time I re-visit it The Rite of Spring amazes me how new that 110 years old piece sounds.

[@robbes7rh]

That was as rich a tribute to Stravinsky in under 20 minutes as there is ever likely to be. You really drove home the vibrancy and color of his music particularly as it pertained to ballet. It serves as a reminder to many of us who only know these as concert pieces, that they are ballets that tell stories with sensual dancing and elaborate visual stagings. What a charmed life he lead as a composer who impacted the world of classical music in the 20th century like no other, and received the recognition and accolades he so well deserved. There is so much inspiration to be had here.

[@michaelnoble8098]

I admire Stravinsky’s trajectory! “Inside The Score” has captured and revealed this extraordinary life of creative genius, beauty, and chaotic energy. I’m not ashamed to say I cried as Stravinsky became pure light and jumped to light speed in the last few seconds! We’ll done, Oscar and crew.

[@emanuelebabici]

Little note: Sergej Diaghilev wasn't a choreographer, he was the producer and director of "Les ballets russes". He wasn't even a dancer, but he has worked with arts for his whole life, mainly as a producer. The Firebird and Petrushka were choreographed by Michel Fokine, and other ballets like Rite of Spring were choreographed by Nijinsky himself.

[@pelodelperro]

Thank you. Love Stravinsky since I first heard his music. My favorite piece of his is Oedipus Rex.

[@EpreTroll]

My favourite piece is the ending of the Psalm Symphony

[@MANGOES1ARE1AWESOME1]

New Inside the Score video! Lets gooooooooooooo 🎶 🎶 🎶

[@samyakhaled4629]

I can't thank you enough for introducing me to Les Noces. My life hasn't been the same ever since.

[@davidaviles9764]

Wow perfectly timed! I'm a teacher and was gonna be talking to my students about Stravinsky soon. Thanks!

[@MutantsInDisguise]

His Firebird is my favourite ballet!

[@anled.composition]

Great video, thanks for sharing !

[@thomasdequincey5811]

'Petrushka', 'The Firebird' and 'The Rite Of Spring' are my absolute favourites. Just magical stuff. P.S. 'Les Noces' is revolutionary in its own way too, it's just not as good as the other three I mentioned.

[@signodeinterrogacion8361]

I'd have to disagree: Les Noces is my favourite piece of his. It's shorter than any other of his ballets but incredibly unique and well crafted, like a jewel. To me it serves as a development on the style pioneered by the Rite of Spring, with a ensamble more fine tuned to the percussive nature of his Russian period, but also an expansion on it's emotional pallete, getting more restrained percussive passages that nevertheless maintain the wild energy of the Rite and some genuinely warm elements. And man, that ending is just devine. Apparently the man himself also found Les Noces to be his best work, it certainly took him the longest.

[@debarjo]

The narration and this presentation has transformed the subject! Scary, provocative!!!

[@Ylva-xv4fz]

I love his elegie for solo viola. It's a true rendition of grief!

[@kenmoore137]

Very interesting presentation about one of my favorite composers. Btw, Handel was not a renaissance composer.

[@underBight]

Yeah, Handel as “renaissance” was an odd statement in otherwise well stated little essay.

[@GojiGuru]

Thank you for introducing me to the idea of musical “primitivism”. That’s a great word for so much music that I enjoy. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was the direct influence on the great Japanese composer Akira Ifukube. Would love if you did a video essay on Ifukube’s music. Though best known in the West for his film scores, his classical/concert repertoire is quite impressive, and much of his music I think would count as primitivism, particularly a favorite of his-Sinfonia Tapkaara-which is his tribute to the traditional dance music of the native Ainu people he grew up among.

[@Bguitarney]

Hey just letting you know these videos on composers put together better than any other on classical music subjects. Much more entertaining which is more important than just the info alone. Thanks

[@betamax6080]

ah yes! my favourite composer!

[@spessivtseva]

excellent taste

[@danimal_312]

Could you please do a video on Wagner! I love his music, and I would love a video that dives deeper into his life and how he was influenced musically! He's truly composed some of the most complex yet beautiful music that I've listened to.

[@Imakemusicandstuff333]

I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOUR ANALYSIS AND VIDEOS

[@davidwright8432]

Many thanks! Now I have a more complete idea of Stravinsky's work and development. Wonderful musical examples, using great audio. And a sympathetic examination of Stravinsky's life and work.

[@Tylervrooman]

Great video!! Stravinsky has been a huge influence on me and many others!

[@ericleiter6179]

This was a great survey of the master...certainly a titan of the 20th century. I thought you gave some great examples from each period of his amazing career, a concise overview for beginners...one note though, did you say Handel was from the Renaissance??? You meant to say Baroque right???

[@bigfakenetwork]

Excellent!

[@antarae]

Thank you for this video!! (and thanks for including Les noces, which is sadly underrated)

[@fingerhorn4]

Les Noces was Stravinsky's favourite work.

[@cjjones258]

A man who was ahead of his time musically

[@hlodovikaGrabn]

I love the passion you describe these works and composers with. Your explanations really help understand and appreciate even more this music that I love, but am unable to read. Thank you so much!!

[@JBorda]

Amazing biography. To me musical genius of the s XX. Hearing The Rite live is a trascendental experience!

[@mel_163]

YES YES MY MAN STRAVINSKY I was waiting for this video

[@happyMOO5]

stravinsky will always be my favorite composer

[@godzilla964]

We probably wouldn't have metal without Stravinsky.

[@TenderVittles]

I’ve been saying this for twenty years and you’re the first person I’ve seen say it other than myself. You get it.

[@juangames3092]

Right

[@CarlosASainzCaccia]

Him and Shostakovich.

[@Hastenforthedawm]

​@@TenderVittles x to doubt. It's a common thing to hear from metalheads.

[@Hastenforthedawm]

If you want real heavy though, try Xenakis

[@drbassface]

Listen to his Dumbarton Oaks Concerto! Love it. He goes Baroque a bit. Memorable melodies with Counterpoint. The Knights have a great recording. It’s on KZbin.

[@Paul49Giloi]

Thank you for recommending 'The Knights'. performance of Dumbarton Oaks. Wonderful, exciting performance. My Damascus moment in music was The Firebird which I first heard in 1969.

[@drbassface]

@@Paul49GiloiThe Firebird was mine also. The group YES introduced many to the Firebird Finale as they opened their show. Maybe you too had that introduction to Stravinsky? A friend lent me his vinyl Firebird Suite. Loved it as it lullaby’d me and then shook me awake with the Orchestra Blast! lol. My song Bass Face opens with that Blast sampled. Glad you enjoyed the Knight’s version of DOaks. “BassFace” kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJW6anywp6tjrKcsi=1TZ0WugzYEhxbH3f

[@rubyzlan]

About to see the Orlando Phil playing Stravinsky‘s Rite of Spring this Saturday. Your video came out at the perfect time!

[@SussyDucky]

I'm very thankful for this video. I enjoyed every second of it and learned a lot! Thanks!

[@paddington249]

Love this video! May I suggest that you should probably put a d'esser on your voiceover, as some parts can be very piercing with plosives lots of p and s sounds! other than that though, great video very informative and exciting

[@pslogge]

Accurate and concise. Thank you.

[@51bpm]

Literally ... my hero!

[@Ceremolligence]

Why listen to Stravinsky? Because he's the God of Harmony 🎉❤

[@giampierogirolamo7134]

Greatly done❤

[@Overlycomplicatedswede]

The firebird music and ballet are incredible and beautiful.

[@hypnotyzzer]

Great video, great work. I was wondering, have you planned one for Jean Sibelius? I would be so happy to watch it... And yes, its a suggestion! 🙏

[@jeffrogers210]

My second favorite piece of Stravinsky's, after The Rite of Spring, is his Octet for Wind Instruments, from early in his classical period.

[@rogerhardy6306]

I'm glad you picked Les Noces as well as the more famous pieces. For me, it is as original as The Rite! Thanks!

[@federicoarrighi5459]

I love Stravinsky! Thank you for giving us this content!

[@addictfull1999]

Thank you, I enjoyed watching ❤

[@andresmaynez3060]

Hey @insidethescore I just came from watching your videos about Mozart. Lovely videos. You should make a video about Salieri to judge if he was truly mediocre like the movie Amadeus says or if he was a genius

[@ASclassical]

Fantastic video and a great tribute to the inmortal Igor Stravinsky

[@chicolofi]

IMO the greatest of all music creators.

[@andreabachioni8048]

what an amazing video, congrats!!

[@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj]

Thank you,ITS. Marvelous!!!⭐🌹⭐

[@alisonkasperian5117]

I did not know I shared my birthday with Stravinsky 😮. This is a good video tho, very educational :)

[@Rosie-chen]

Thank you as always！

[@PhantomdeOpera-qb2ok]

For some strange reason I associate Stravy with Freddie Mercury. A few days ago I was listening to the "March of the Black Queen" and immediately thereafter I had to listen to The Rite of Spring. Now I can't stop.

[@zushiistek2444]

I want to hear your opinion about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky

[@shadynagy5462]

Beautiful.. thank you.. shukran

[@kevintmusic]

Really good documentary; great explanations of techniques for composers! Thanks

[@hannahmichaels9992]

another unclockable video excellent thank you!

[@jameslabs1]

Thanks

[@cathy7382]

Yea Rite of Spring is one of my favorite works

[@eriksatieofficiel]

Igor was my friend

[@SeattleSkippy]

Just adding to the earlier comment and someone really needs to fact check these things. Anyone with a basic knowledge of the Ballet Russes knows that Diaghilev was a great impresario (equivalent to a modern-day producer) but that he didn't contribute artistically to the works, even though he also had studied privately with Rimsky-Korsakov. Not to discount his contribution in the least. He brought together so many great artistic talents to work together from composers like Stravinsky and Ravel with choreographers like Fokine and Nijinsky to artists such as Picasso and Kandinsky and even designers like Coco Channel herself.

[@matyasajtai9124]

Next topic maybe Bartók?

[@angowong1407]

Would you make some guides on Mahler 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 just like those on brahms? This actually give people the passion to listen to the whole piece

[@sciagurrato1831]

Regrettably you didn’t mention Apollo [Musagète] which is a unique masterpiece unlike any others of Stravinsky.

[@oliverwakila]

Adore this video!! Does anyone know the name of the music at 10:15?

[@TheMuni777]

That would be from the Rite of Spring, specifically the "Spring Rounds" section. The music then transitions to the "Coachmen and Grooms Dance" from Petrushka.

[@tommeadows-ie2xb]

Those Harvard lectures are amazing. He is against the idea of musical inspiration, describes his writing as purely physical work, discusses the use of physiological and psychological time in his music, etc. He very much dismisses popular ideas of a "composer genius" with magical ideas coming to him out of nowhere.

[@kimchin9740]

7:30 should Eb dominant 7th instead?

[@Cancoillotteman]

There are so many sounds from the rites of Spring which clearly inspired the Jurassic Park BO

[@diegeigergarnele7975]

I know for sure he would have hated you calling him a rebel. It’s funny you say he is revolutionary when in his lessons at Harvard (that you quoted but probably not read) he sarcastically answered that the revolution is the movement of an object coming back to it’s initial position

[@yanayrton]

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[@bobblues1158]

If one is smart, one can use serialism as a starting place with rules or randomly constructed forms. After so doing, adjust the resulting composition to ones´ own aesthetic and discard the self imposed form. Make some rules and then break the rules.

[@IakobusAtreides]

The greatest of all time.

[@theopaopa1]

11:59 ! 🤩🙏

[@briseidemorales3387]

Gracias

[@TheMusterion76]

You missed to talk about the Histoire du Soldat

[@mdcatdad]

His works before he left Russia are wonderful, but his only great work after he emigrated was the Symphony of Psalms (although there are a few good moments in the Symphony in Three Movements).

[@madrigal1956]

Les Noces is a great work! (among others)

[@JohannSebastian101]

You should do a Why listen to Chopin?

[@RichardASalisbury1]

A cavil: Handel wasn't a Renaissance composer, he was late Baroque.

[@magdalenaj.1390]

Renaissance work by Handel or the likes?

[@josephromance3908]

Love Stravinsky...almost as revolutionary as Charles Ives.

[@dtyerisd]

I love Stravinsky and much of his beautiful music, but I agree with Adorno, he is "the restoration" the real progress is Schoenberg.

[@andresvasquez5411]

You should talk about Khachaturian 👀

[@fingerhorn4]

Hang on. You missed out a huge portion of Stravinsky's early composing life, and you speak as though the Firebird was virtually his first significant work. I realise you tried to pack a lot into 20 minutes, but there are many very significant pieces which led up to the three great ballets of 1910-1913. Moreover, what you describe as "cinematic" is the wrong way round. It is film producers and composers who drew from Stravinsky's works and used (copied) them into their film scores. Stravinsky was not only uninterested in composing for film but actually hated his music being used for cinema. Diaghilev was NOT a choreographer but an IMPRESARIO.

[@patrickmaline4258]

glowing words of praise communicate little but your enthusiasm, which is infectious. if you want to learn how to communicate about music on another level, i recommend watching adam neely. not sure about the spelling. his technical breakdown of a piece or a style cuts through the ambiguity of subjective adjectives in a way i can really understand. he is well grounded in history, so this subject would be right up his alley. not affiliated. ☮️

[@donaldwhittaker7987]

He helped create prog rock also

[@chriscarpenter1920]

Wait, Handel was Renaissance?

[@foreignparticle1320]

Nope.

[@tarasubramaniam6191]

Soldier's Tale? Polka fir Elephants...

[@thomasjamison2050]

His wonderful sense of beautiful melody? No?????

[@Al.Kour.00]

It's sad that such a great composer was straving.

[@steinklotz69]

I like E

[@FaramarzMoazzami]

Revolutionery music are the Dimitry Shostakovish and not Stravinsky. Stravinsky has some modern classical music as Rite of Spring but the rest are mostly just classical.

[@stinhuffine4422]

Why all his music sounds like Star Wars soundtrack?

[@madrigal1956]

1) it doesn't, most of time 2) when it does, it's because almost all film composers, including John Williams, pilfered Stravinsky (and aknowledged it) ; not to diminish the quality of said film music!

[@mikechad27]

stravinsky bad john williams good?

[@mikechad27]

Oh no! did Stravinsky really just time travel to future to STEAL star wars idea??? 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@mikechad27]

what overrated film music does to a mf:

[@stinhuffine4422]

@@mikechad27 sorry, my comment was half joke half I genuinely noticed resemblance to some scenes such as Death Star before explosion. I appreciate this music and I know it was John Williams who took inspiration

[@NicholasOngRT]

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's son was 'Andrei' and not 'Vladimir'.

[@dinitroacetylen]

So, academically speaking, heavy metal is just musical serial primitivism with electric guitars?

[@Fanfanbalibar]

WHY DO YOU DISPLAY A RACHMANINOFF PICTURE IN AN ARTICLE ABOUT STRAVINSKY????????????

[@johntiscornia1241]

Did Igor Stravinsky have adhd? I mean, his creativity had to have come from somewhere right?

[@Alix777.]

Burgericans are fascinated by Stravinsky because he lived in Burgerica for a time. He's not even played in Europe so much anymore. That's a good thing.

[@evanmcdonnal]

These classifications of 'era' are complete nonsense, regardless of whether or not they're broadly accepted. Style isn't associated with time, era is. The definition is literally "a long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic." - You classified works from say 1920 into an era with one from 1951 and then at the same time interjected works from another 'era' within it like Les Noces from 1923. These works are of different styles but not of different eras or phases. They are interweaved and therefor cannot be different eras. An era is mutually exclusive to other era's, they cannot overlap.

[@FantadiRienzo]

I'm sorry, but sometimes "reinventions" don't improve, but ruin.

[@Keytaster]

Let's be honest about him and his legacy: Petrushka and Firebird were great and important works, Rite of Spring was groundbreaking, fantastic and all the adjectives one can think about. No praise could be higher. The rest of his career was negligible and unimportant. In all ways. Forever. Nobody will ever care about anything other than the three early ballets.

[@thanasis_milios]

Speak for yourself. Les Noces, Oedipus Rex, Orpheus, Symphony of Psalms, Soldiers Tale ect. are mostly greater than the 3 ballets (maybe except the Rite).

[@madrigal1956]

How on earth can you dismiss Les Noces, L'Histoire du Soldat, the Symphony of Psalms, Requiem Canticles, to mention just four?