Rhythm as engine: Stravinsky and Bartók

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Rhythm as engine: Stravinsky and Bartók · Around 1910, rhythm became the engine of the new music. Igor Stravinsky's ballet music Le sacre du printemps caused a riot on 29 May 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, with harsh, irregular accents and pagan rituals on stage. The Hungarian Béla Bartók collected thousands of folk songs and, in Allegro barbaro (1911), pounded the piano as if it were a percussion instrument. Their rhythmic power continues to work its way into film, jazz and rock.

Listening

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  Le sacre du printemps: Les augures printaniers (New York Philharmonic, Igor Stravinsky) · Igor Stravinsky, 1913
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  Allegro barbaro (Zoltán Kocsis) · Béla Bartók, 1911
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  Muziek voor snaarinstrumenten, slagwerk en celesta: Allegro (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner) · Béla Bartók, 1936

See also

• Nationalist schools
• Impressionism
• Neoclassicism
• Soviet film music