David Stewart asks:
>I am a couple of months away from taking my 'A' level in Music and need
>some into on Neo-Classicism. What are the main characteristics of it (if
>that is an answerable question)? I understand Strav's Violin Conc is a case
>in point and I have this. What else can I get that is a prime example?
Loath as I am to help with homework, I can provide examples: Stravinsky's
Oedipus Rex, Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, Octet, and Concerto for 2 Solo
Pianos, Weill's Symphony No. 2, Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony,
Bloch's Concerto Grosso No. 1, Martinu's Half-Time, Vaughan Williams's
Concerto accademico, Holst's Fugal Concerto and Fugal Overture, Poulenc's
Concert champetre, Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro and Harpsichord
Concerto, Sessions's Symphony No. 1, Milhaud's La Creation du monde,
Walton's Facade, Britten's Young Person's Guide and Young Apollo.
It might help also to think of counter-examples: Berg's Violin Concerto,
Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden, Gurrelieder, and Pelleas und Melisande,
Sibelius's Symphony No. 4, Debussy's Nocturnes, Falla's Nights in the
Gardens of Spain, Bloch's Schelomo, Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 2,
Holst's Planets, Weill's Symphony No. 1, Stravinsky's Firebird, Petrushka,
and Le Sacre, Sessions's Black Maskers Suite, Walton's Symphony No. 1,
Hindemith's String Quartet No. 1.
Steve Schwartz
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