The Rite Signs: Semiotic Readings One Hundred Years On
The Rite Signs: Semiotic Readings One Hundred Years On
Author(s): Nicholas P. McKaySubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych
Keywords: ballet; music; semiotics; Stravinsky; The Rite of Spring
Summary/Abstract: One hundred years on from the infamous premiere of The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky’s epoch-defining ballet continues to evoke controversy and contention in both musicological and performance circles. Even to call it a ballet is to overlook, or compound, its problematic identity. Throughout its life span, most audiences will have encountered, valorised andidentified the work as a landmark of orchestral musical modernism heard primarily, perhaps even exclusively, in concert halls and on audio recordings with not a dancer, theatre stage or set in sight. Still to this day it thus remains one of music’s more remarkable split personalities: bifurcated along formalist and contextualist lines by Stravinsky’s retrospective and opportunistic assertion that he had written “un oeuvre architectonique et non anecdotique.”
Journal: AVANT. Pismo Awangardy Filozoficzno-Naukowej
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 15-35
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English