Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and ... 1910 and 1913, Stravinsky's harmonic language changed beyond recognition. His main works from this short period, The Firebird, Petrushka ...

As Schoenberg and Stravinsky ... unveiled his 12-note method of composition - there are twelve notes in a scale (on a piano, seven white notes and five black) and in tonal music these are ...

Once the Stalinist regime established itself, the opportunity was gone: Stravinsky's music was no longer imported to the Soviet Union, and the composer himself was presented as a kind of cultural ...

Russian nationalist music had sporadically won its ... Russian-Oriental exotica in the Scheherezade vein. Stravinsky's commission for the Firebird ballet was an attempt to capitalise on this ...