The Rite of Spring a continuing source of instruction

a continuing source of instruction and enlightenment to modern readers

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To the layman with any aesthetic interests at all it will be a source of stimulation and satisfaction that only great art can provide

Authors David F

The Rite of Spring a continuing source of instructionWith this brilliant and uncompromising work perhaps the most famous musical work of the twentieth century Stravinsky changed the course of modern music forever. Discarding conventional harmonies for bizarrely dissonant chords, and uniform metrics for harshly jarring beat patterns, he created a sensational theater piece that, at the work's 1931 premier, caused the music world's most talked about riot. "Every law of musical syntax, every canon of