Music - MYP 4 and 5 - Samuel Wright - Hodder 2020

BROUGHT THE
STRAVINSKY
WE NEEDED
CHANGE
1 Listen to the opening of Part 1 Scene II: ‘The soldier’s
2 As you listen or watch from a score, notate in your
ostinato
features that you identify. The changes in time
recurring
How did the 20th
Century establish
change in the world
of music?
Figure 11.22
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portfolio the main violin
and any other
signature create an interesting moving
texture
within
the instrumental parts.
The story does not end well for the soldier, and as the
The history books speak of Igor Stravinsky’s (1882–1971)
narrator concludes with this statement:
incredible introduction of rhythmic variation and (often
must not seek to add
“You
what you have, what you once had;
To
violent) harmonic colouring to music of the early 20th
Century. However, not many focus on the storytelling
power of Stravinsky’s ideas. The world was a different place
have no right to share
You
you are with what you were.
What
in 1900, and Stravinsky brought with him the history and
culture of Russia as his muse.
one can have it all,
No
is forbidden…”
That
L’Histoire du soldat (‘The Soldier’s Tale’) is a theatrical work
to be , and for seven instruments and
read played
danced
Premiered in 1918 and written by Stravinsky and
narrators.
Swiss writer C.F. Ramuz, it was based upon a Russian folk
tale where the devil torments a soldier trying to get home
to his loved one. Following the evils of the First World
War, the plot is relevant. Written in two parts, the score
calls for a small arrangement of clarinet, bassoon, cornet,
trombone, percussion, violin and double bass. It is in
typical Stravinsky fashion that rhythm is a dominant focus
and alternating time signatures create something called
asymmetrical rhythm.
violin’.
Figure 11.24 Improvised rhythmic examples of the
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narration.
concluding
You can also watch a score version on YouTube at
https://youtu.be/JgSGTO36zUs?t=169
Figure 11.23 Violin ostinato from Part 1 Scene II mm2–6
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