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Annotated Bibliography: Igor Stravinsky

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Annotated Bibliography: Igor Stravinsky

Notably, Igor Stravinsky is renowned composer of the twentieth century who has

managed to amass his fame and celebrity status from his innovative approach to orchestration,

harmony and rhythm. His career comprises a diverse portfolio and such an assertion comes from

the facts of his records as a conductor, composer and pianist among others. As such a

comprehensive annotated bibliography would be pertinent in contemplating the contributions of

some of his works as well as their significances in the building of his remarkable career.

Reinhard, J. (2022). A Microtonal Analysis of Igor Stravinsky’s Concept of Pitch and Its

Resulting Scale. ICONI, (1), 39-58.

In his article, Johnny Reinhard describes Stravinsky as the most prominent composer of

the 20th century. He has focused his works on the microtonality concept of music which

Stravinsky alleged was the future direction of the music. As a specialist in microtonality, the

author issues a comprehensive microtonal interpretation of Stravinsky’s performances and

musical composition. He identifies Stravinsky’s ability to bring out particular spelling of specific

chromatic intervals in his musical works which are unique as compared to the overtone series

and the composer’s words as written in his texts. He compares Stravinsky’s microtonal concept

to the historical European and non-European alternate tuning and temperaments. They seem to

substantiate the microtonal interpretations of Stravinsky’s music.

MacInnis, J., & Peters, M. (2022). Reading Igor Stravinsky’s Poetics of Music in Christian

Higher Education. International Journal of Christianity & Education,

20569971221087689.
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The authors of the aforementioned article bring out Stravinsky as an historical educator in

the context of Charles Eliot. The article gives a comprehensive illustration of Stravinsky’s works

analyzed in students’ musical classes. Further focus is directed on the pedagogical methods that

can be employed from Stravinsky’s poetry works to develop Christian affiliated approaches in

defining our culture. The article reviews professors at North American institutions of Christian

Higher Education analyzing Stravinsky’s poetics and devising Christian theories from the same

thus a show of the significance of his work across an array of fields.

Kozachenko-Stravinsky, A. (2022). Memorial Literature as a Historiographical Source of

Igor Stravinsky’s Portrait. Quaderni di Venezia Arti, 5, 290.

In this article, Anastasia elucidates Stravinsky’s unique status as a cosmopolitan

composer. The article provides a detailed research based on the people that accompanied him

during his USSR tour. The diaries of the people who accompanied him issue a diversified

perspective of Stravinsky and this provides an opportunity to discover a hidden side of

Stravinsky; his two facets of being a soviet and an American, both of which have been described

as to have being radically opposite. His national self-identification has remained an issue of

question as some critiques allege that it stands to control his composing styles.

Brown, K. G. (2021). Those Great Inspirers: The Tactile Compositional World of Igor

Stravinsky (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles).

In this article, Stravinsky’s musical work is credited to piano music. The authors allege

that his stunning innovations in orchestration, timbre and instrumentation were all as a result of

his greatness in the mastery of the art of the keyboard and the piano. To affirm these assertions,

the author presupposes that Stravinsky left incredible imprints of the piano on every music he
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composed. In addition to that, the author further asserts that these imprints were unique to

Stravinsky and this can be seen from his sense of harmony whenever he played the piano. This

article looks though the childhood of Stravinsky and other subsequent manifestations in his

tactilely guided innovations in musical texture, harmony and timbre.

Bomgardner, S. (2021). In Memorium Dylan Thomas–a Salute to the Vocal Music of Igor

Stravinsky.

The author starts of by noting Stravinsky’s death anniversary and highlighting the fact

that he was one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. The paper focuses on Stravinsky’s

works in tenor, trombone quartet and string quartet. Much focus is put on his poem dedicated to

his friend and colleague Dylan Thomas. Stravinsky’s use of the tone row in this poem makes it

outstanding in different ways. Indeed, a review of the concepts employed in this poems gives

clear depiction of the ideality of his works for college students and professionals in their quest to

better their recital performances.

Dekeli, İ. (2019). The percussion usage of igor stravinsky in his early ballets: The firebird,

Petrushka and the Rite of spring (Master's thesis, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü).

The author acknowledges Stravinsky as one of the pioneers of modern era and this is so

because of his ability to synchronize orchestration, classical harmony and forms of traditions

from different perspectives. He uses the example of the three ballets, ‘The Firebird’, ‘Petrushka’

and ‘The Rite of Spring’, to depict Stravinsky’s ability and prowess in incorporating ballets from

different era in terms of visual, theme and music and presenting them in rather an innovative way

contrary to people’s expectations. Also, the performances of his pieces included highly varied
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and innovative ways. This article focuses on the percussion sections of the aforementioned ballet

as well as the innovative approaches introduced by Stravinsky in percussion writing.

Ghvinjilia, G. (2019). Signs of Christian Ecumenism in Igor Stravinsky's "Symphony of

Psalms". Musicology & Cultural Science, 20(2).

The article in the subject looks into the signs of Christian ecumenism in Stravinsky’s

symphony of psalms. The article addresses the need to synthesize the diverse branches of art

developed beyond the church’s autonomy. They describe Stravinsky as an orthodox composer

and in justification of their assertion highlight the synchrony of the Romanic and Russian context

in the ‘symphony of psalms’ by Stravinsky. This piece of art is characterized by an array of

artistic models and such an assertion comes from the neoclassicist aesthetics used in its

development. The psalms were created in a way that they gave Stravinsky the opportunity to

integrate various genre models of orthodox and catholic music alongside specific canonic and

tendencies of the orthodox and catholic genre.

Slim, H. C. (2019). Stravinsky in the Americas. In Stravinsky in the Americas. University of

California Press.

This book narrates an interesting ordeal that is pertinent in enhancing our contemplation

of Stravinsky’s work and its affiliated contribution in the field of music and art in general. The

book examines a twenty year period that starts off with Stravinsky as a European art and music

composer and ends with him being a renowned figure in the American culture. The book has a

detailed explanation of his encounters; his entire collection traces Stravinsky’s rise to stardom

such as his contributions to Hollywood and Disney as well as his personal life. It also previews
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his handling of the feelings of antisemitism and the encounters he had with contemporary

musicians and the evolution of the music industry in the midcentury America.

Oliva, C. A. B. (2019). A comparison of excerpts by Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Dmitri

Shostakovich and Béla Bartók to excerpts by György Ligeti: comparative analysis

based on textural parameters.

The reference in the subject is a dissertation that compares excerpts obtained from

various composers (Igor Stravinsky included) in an attempt to identify sonorous similarities in

these pieces. Ideally, the paper depicts evidence of textual parameters as structural elements used

in music composition in the 20th century. Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ is analyzed in this dissertation

and compared to other pieces by different composers. They demonstrate the influences of the

works of antecessors such as Stravinsky on the works of Gyorgy Ligeti. It is pertinent in this

research as it will depict Stravinsky’s use of textual parameters in the composition of his works.

Wallace, R. (2021). Jab Molassie: an analysis and performance guide for a Caribbean folk

musical drama.

The document mentioned above highlights the works of Dominique le Gendre as a

Caribbean folk adaptation of Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. It also depicts the connections

between these pieces and the western and Caribbean music and culture. Within the document are

performances guide that enable for the authentic performance of Jab Molassie outside of the

Caribbean culture. This piece is pertinent in understanding Stravinsky’s works and contribution

to the field of music. It brings out key musical concepts that redefine people’s understanding of

the music. It comes in handy in deriving better understanding for the works of Stravinsky.
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References

Bomgardner, S. (2021). In Memorium Dylan Thomas–a Salute to the Vocal Music of Igor

Stravinsky.

Brown, K. G. (2021). Those Great Inspirers: The Tactile Compositional World of Igor

Stravinsky (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles).

Dekeli, İ. (2019). The percussion usage of igor stravinsky in his early ballets: The firebird,

Petrushka and the Rite of spring (Master's thesis, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü).

Ghvinjilia, G. (2019). Signs of Christian Ecumenism in Igor Stravinsky's "Symphony of

Psalms". Musicology & Cultural Science, 20(2).

Kozachenko-Stravinsky, A. (2022). Memorial Literature as a Historiographical Source of Igor

Stravinsky’s Portrait. Quaderni di Venezia Arti, 5, 290.

MacInnis, J., & Peters, M. (2022). Reading Igor Stravinsky’s Poetics of Music in Christian

Higher Education. International Journal of Christianity & Education,

20569971221087689.

Oliva, C. A. B. (2019). A comparison of excerpts by Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Dmitri

Shostakovich and Béla Bartók to excerpts by György Ligeti: comparative analysis based

on textural parameters.

Reinhard, J. (2022). A Microtonal Analysis of Igor Stravinsky’s Concept of Pitch and Its

Resulting Scale. ICONI, (1), 39-58.

Slim, H. C. (2019). Stravinsky in the Americas. In Stravinsky in the Americas. University of

California Press.
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Wallace, R. (2021). Jab Molassie: an analysis and performance guide for a Caribbean folk

musical drama.