The time has come: the victim begins her dance to the death. endstream endobj startxref 4 0.0/10 The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. Orchestral Excerpts BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 But let nature shrug, and all is in ruin. 2 *#758261 - 20.47MB - 15:26 - 10 Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is an entire ballet; as such, it's difficult to say what the form of the entire work is. 6 A guide to teaching and playing 10 A soft theme shared by two trumpets in C in 5/4, with a slight variation in 6/4, is another to be developed; a creepy background is heard in the violas and cellos for two bars of 5/4, then two bars later, an upward splashing of sextuplet 32nd notes is heard in the E-flat clarinet, backed by a similar upward splashing of notes in the violins and with viola harmonics. The Earth mother goddess of Slavic pagan myth, Mat Zemlya, would have been both adored and feared, depending on whether she provided a bountiful harvest in the fall (i.e., the flourishing of Yarilo) or a bad one. Northwestern University School of Music series Music from Northwestern is resuming broadcast on WFMT-FM, featuring School of Music ensembles, faculty, students, as well as guest artists. Significantly, we see an extreme earthquake tearing up the land, a furious mother goddess to contrast with the passionate, celebratory dance seen onstage with Nijinskys choreography.