Music of Igor Stravinsky

Throughout the first half of the past century,
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) impacted the
contemporary music scene like a startling
super-brilliant meteor. The course will combine
biography, music theory, analysis, score study,
guided listening and aesthetic discussion in
order to yield an overview of Stravinsky's life,
work and historical influence and an appreciation
of his ingenious sense of timbre, harmony and
rhythm and of the fascinating precision and
virtuosity of his compositional craft, as well as
of his most original transformational methods for
energizing his music by drawing upon the
authenticity and power of highly esteemed roots
and influences (like the Russian folklore, early
Jazz, beloved Pergolesi, or Arnold Schoenberg's
12-tone-method).