The Cambridge Companion to The Rite of Spring

Davinia Caddy is author of The Ballets Russes and Beyond: Music and Dance in Belle-Epoque Paris (Cambridge, 2012), co-editor of Musicology and Dance: Historical and Critical Perspectives (Cambridge, 2020), author of How to Hear Classical Music (2013) and frequent contributor to Radio New Zealand.

• List of figures; List of examples; Notes on contributors; Chronology of the Rite of Spring; Introduction: on criticism, excess and felt response Davinia Caddy; Part I. The Paris Premiere: 1. Transforming the world of dance: the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev Jane Pritchard; 2. Genesis and collaboration: Igor Stravinsky's music for the rite of spring Tamsin Alexander; 3. Nicholas Roerich's Rite of Spring: costumes, décors and visual design Mary E. Davis; 4. Movement and choreographic influence: the contribution of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Rite of Spring Renate Bräuninger; 5. The Rite of Spring in the Parisian press Sarah Gutsche-Miller; Part II. Contexts: 6. Framing modernism: primitivism, grotesquerie and orientalism in French art and visual culture Gurminder Kaur Bhogal; 7. Vesna Svyashchennaya: the rites of spring in Russian art and tradition Olga Haldey; 8. Situating the Rite of Spring within Stravinsky's compositional oeuvre Maureen Carr and Phillip Mackenzie Torbert; 9. The Soviet context: the Rite of Spring at the Bolshoi Theatre; Part III. Performance and Interpretation: 10. The Rite of Spring in concert, on record and online Daniel Barolsky; 11. Choreographic visions and revisions Rachana Vajjhala; 12. The Rite of Spring in popular culture and cinema Luke Howard; Part IV. Scholarship: 13. Contesting analytical traditions Daniel K. L. Chua; 14. Transcribed Rites of Spring: revisionist narratives across music and dance history Samuel N. Dorf; Conclusion: reflections, ideas, supplements Tatiana Baranova Monighetti; Further reading; Index.

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