The Rite of Spring in Full Score (Dover Music Scores) by Igor Stravinsky (1989-01-01)

Though the Rite of Spring may not be my favorite piece of music, this is probably one of my favorite Dover scores. I bought it to fill a hole in my ever growing collection (don't have any Stravinsky or much Russian music except for Tchaikovsky) and because the price was cheap. I really love how big the score is and how black the ink is. With a piece this complicated, it's nice to be able to read everything without making a second glance. Even when every instrument in the score is playing, the score is still easy to follow (except for those meter changes in the second part!). I wish all of my Dover scores were this big and clear (some of their Mahler scores are a little too small for comfort). Verdict: If you don't own this score already, you should do yourself a favor and pick it up. You never realize how much you miss until you follow with the score (and you still can't believe it!).

It's no secret that "Vjesná Svjashchjénnaja" ("Spring Consecrated", a literal translation of the original Russian title) is an exceedingly difficult piece to understand on first hearing (and it can take many hearings for it to clear up). This is doubly so if all one can do is hear a recording. A score is essential for it to be fully understood - and what better way to handle this challenge than via this reprint from a Soviet edition (outstandingly accurate yet inexpensive)? [Knowing how usually often Dover editions are very good if not excellent (notably their Richard Strauss, Chaykóvskiy, Brahms, Debussy and many others!) is all the more reason not to waste money on another edition (unless one absolutely MUST have the most current redraft he made in an attempt to get more money over the piece's copyright-lifetime). Excellently sized yet beautifully bound, easy to read - and accurate!! This is a steal!!!] Another bonus: you also get to sample some of the thinking and ideology that Communism was forcing on its people in all regards and all walks of life - outstanding reminder of what political correctness can do to us all(this warning especially meant for those who believe in it in any way whatsoever...)!! Buy this without delay!!!

This is a great piece, it's a wonderful edition, easy to read and follow your recordings and enough space to mark your notes.

This is one of the greatest masterpieces ever written. It is such a joy to see Stravinsky's orchestration. I feel honored to hear and see its magnificence. Thank you

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"The Rite of Spring In Full Score" contains the complete unabridged score of composer Igor Stravinsky's timeless classic "The Rite Of Spring". Besides presenting the full musical notation for the entire piece, this book also contains a brief but detailed history on the work. Looking at the score is an astounding revelation into Stravinsky's creative genius. What often sounds like pure noise on recordings and in performance is in reality carefully notated and fully realized. In other words, Stravinsky knew exactly what he was after when he composed "The Rite of Spring" and the score proves it in all its glory. Even if you can't read music, if you're a fan of Igor Stravinsky and "The Rite Of Spring", this score is an essential guide and study tool to this revolutionary work. It also offers an insight into the composer's fascinating creative mind.

If this is the kind of thing you can imagine in your Library, you won't be disappointed.

Rehearsal numbers line up perfectly with the conductors score!

Loved the introduction! Great paper quality, beautiful edition

I took a film scoring course last summer, and bought this to augment my studies. Very insightful and helpful in my learning more about orchestration.

Though the Rite of Spring may not be my favorite piece of music, this is probably one of my favorite Dover scores. I bought it to fill a hole in my ever growing collection (don't have any Stravinsky or much Russian music except for Tchaikovsky) and because the price was cheap. I really love how big the score is and how black the ink is. With a piece this complicated, it's nice to be able to read everything without making a second glance. Even when every instrument in the score is playing, the score is still easy to follow (except for those meter changes in the second part!). I wish all of my Dover scores were this big and clear (some of their Mahler scores are a little too small for comfort). Verdict: If you don't own this score already, you should do yourself a favor and pick it up. You never realize how much you miss until you follow with the score (and you still can't believe it!).

It's no secret that "Vjesná Svjashchjénnaja" ("Spring Consecrated", a literal translation of the original Russian title) is an exceedingly difficult piece to understand on first hearing (and it can take many hearings for it to clear up). This is doubly so if all one can do is hear a recording. A score is essential for it to be fully understood - and what better way to handle this challenge than via this reprint from a Soviet edition (outstandingly accurate yet inexpensive)? [Knowing how usually often Dover editions are very good if not excellent (notably their Richard Strauss, Chaykóvskiy, Brahms, Debussy and many others!) is all the more reason not to waste money on another edition (unless one absolutely MUST have the most current redraft he made in an attempt to get more money over the piece's copyright-lifetime). Excellently sized yet beautifully bound, easy to read - and accurate!! This is a steal!!!] Another bonus: you also get to sample some of the thinking and ideology that Communism was forcing on its people in all regards and all walks of life - outstanding reminder of what political correctness can do to us all(this warning especially meant for those who believe in it in any way whatsoever...)!! Buy this without delay!!!

This is a great piece, it's a wonderful edition, easy to read and follow your recordings and enough space to mark your notes.

This is one of the greatest masterpieces ever written. It is such a joy to see Stravinsky's orchestration. I feel honored to hear and see its magnificence. Thank you

fine

"The Rite of Spring In Full Score" contains the complete unabridged score of composer Igor Stravinsky's timeless classic "The Rite Of Spring". Besides presenting the full musical notation for the entire piece, this book also contains a brief but detailed history on the work. Looking at the score is an astounding revelation into Stravinsky's creative genius. What often sounds like pure noise on recordings and in performance is in reality carefully notated and fully realized. In other words, Stravinsky knew exactly what he was after when he composed "The Rite of Spring" and the score proves it in all its glory. Even if you can't read music, if you're a fan of Igor Stravinsky and "The Rite Of Spring", this score is an essential guide and study tool to this revolutionary work. It also offers an insight into the composer's fascinating creative mind.

If this is the kind of thing you can imagine in your Library, you won't be disappointed.

Rehearsal numbers line up perfectly with the conductors score!

Loved the introduction! Great paper quality, beautiful edition

I took a film scoring course last summer, and bought this to augment my studies. Very insightful and helpful in my learning more about orchestration.

Fast delivery. Books were perfect!

As a composition student, studying this score in particular has given me a lot of inspiration. I would highly recommend it to any of my peers and colleagues.

Great score.

Amazing good

I actually bought The Rite of Spring for me boyfriend, who is a musician. He loved it! Here in Brazil music sheets like this are extremely rare and expensive, so it sure was the perfect gift. :)

Good edition.

Study score is clean and accurate. Great for general score study and analysis.

Perfect

Every classical composer should own this score.

Perfectly done score. Lays flat for score study/conducting and looks nice. I typically buy Dover products but this time I wanted something that didn't have to be broken in. (I've found once you break in the spine a bit, Dover scores do stay flatter.) I'd highly suggest it. :)

great

This score is easy to follow, for what's one of the most complicated pieces in music history. I'm not sure about other versions available, but I've been satisfied with this one.

If you have not checked out this score I highly recommend you do! This allows you to get in the mind of one of the greatest composers in the world!

Excellent condition

Dover scores r the best !!! ….. and Stravinsky is NOT bad !!!!! …..the horn parts are spectacular

What a beautiful piece of music. And the score was in mint condition, had obviously never been opened before. Met all of my expectations. Thanks!

Its fine and it did get here very fast. Thanks

It is so clear to see it. I felt that all music notes have brought out to me. Thank you.

Can anyone actually imagine playing this difficult piece for 33 minutes? If you look inside, you can see the many complexities that are within the score. Time signatures change almost constantly, brass play twenty random notes in one measure, tubas play much higher notes than usual, strings do a lot of plucking, and the woodwinds go all over the place in many scenes )including the Introduction to the "Adoration of the Earth" sequence). This just shows you how much of a genius Stavinsky really was. Fantastic! Oh, and I never performed this piece, so that's why I was asking in the first place...............

Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" is excellent, but even if it weren't, this score would still be wonderful. Major positive points: 1) The score stays open and flat on a table or conductor's stand. Dover seems to take great care with this in their full scores, and it really makes score reading/studying much simpler. 2) The paper is thin enough to keep the size of the score small, but it's thick enough that markings/highlighting don't bleed through, which is wonderful. 3) Every system has either instrument names or understandable abbreviations. 4) MEASURE NUMBERS! 5) The music is dark and easy to read. There are no faded or missing barlines, which is a problem I seem to encounter with Kalmus and Lucks scores, as well as Dover miniature editions. 6) Attractive layout and engraving. This doesn't just look like a Finale print, unlike some other new scores. I've always been proved with Dover's orchestral scores, and this is no exception. I worked from the Boosey's score last semester, and I definitely prefer this one.

An excellent quality copy. Great to have a copy of such a monumental work. It has clear, easy to read notes and text. Ideal for students or those who are just doing it out of interest

For anyone who loves music in general as much as I do, Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring can be, to say the least, a shockingly intense listening experience, full of strangely dissonant polytonal simultaneities, overwhelming rhythmic dephasing, and colorful details and timbristic effects that take maximum advantage of what a great symphony orchestra has to offer. This edition of the translated original score allows you a better understanding of this revolutionary musical monsterpiece, with visual complement to what your ears couldn't even consider figuring out. Sometimes it's simpler than you would imagine; sometimes it's much, much more complex. This work taught me a great deal about music composition & arranging, and the book also allowed me to write a reduction of the "Spring Rounds" for a 7-piece band.

From Jordan in Minnesota In 1998 I bought the original score of Le Sacre du Printemps from Kalmus for 65.00 dollars!! Although the Kalmus version in cited from numerous musicians and stravinsky himself, this version of dovers is well worth the 10 dollars!! It is pretty much the same as Kalmus' but it has no chief editor, and since its a reprint it will have the same concept as the Kalmus score, only it is 55.00 dollars cheaper. If anyone wants the 4 extra pages of the kalmus version that compares the scores, I would be happy to copy it and send them, as long as people realize that the Kalmus version as of January 16 2006 is almost 100.00. So stick with this dover version it will definately save you the money!! cojo0502@stcloudstate.edu

The Rite of Spring Orchestral Score is readable, print is clear, size is just right. Binding is flexible; no complaints.

If you are enthralled with the Rite's rhythm, harmony, or whatever... this is the perfect opportunity to see the orchestration and metric usage. As someone who loves the Rite, and analyzing music, this was a no brainer. Cheap and easy to read. Absolutely fantastic.

Classic!

Die Partitur im angenehm größeren Format (30,7 x 23,6cm) ist ein Reprint der Ausgabe von Izdatel'stvo "Muzyka" (State Music Publishing House), Moskau, 1965, mit hinzugefügtem neuem, ausführlichem Inhaltsverzeichnis (englische und französische Titel), Besetzungsliste (italienisch wie in den Marginalien im Notentext, samt englischer Übersetzung) plus einer englischen Übersetzung des originalen Vorworts von Boris Mikhailovich Yarustovsky (im Umfang von 5 Seiten). Die Überschriften im Notentext selbst sind russisch mit englischer Übersetzung. Das Notenbild ist klar und gut lesbar, auf einigen wenigen Seiten aber leider etwas blasser (daher ein Stern-Abzug!). Alles in allem ideal zum Studium dieses sich durch präzise und geniale Instrumentationskunst auszeichnenden Werkes.

Com sempre en les partitures de a partir de mitjans el segle XIX Dover ofereix primeres edicions o edicions revisades publicades i controlades pel mateix autor. En aquest cas, una obra tan recent com "La Consagració de la Primavera" que si bé se'n feren revisions i potser algú voldrà una edició crítica comparada amb aquesta n'hi ha prou per aquells qui vulguem seguir la partitura i copsar totes les innovacions que Stravinski va proposar ja fa 100 anys!

Are you addicted to Stravinsky? Were you blown away the first time you heard The Rite of Spring? Are you studying music/enjoy music/a composer? If yes, get this. You won't be disappointed. It's a work of art and the binding lays flat which is extremely intuitive...

Perfect for studying. Highly recommended.

Mi hino de 15 anos está encantado. El está estudando composicion

Much cheaper than other editions and has everything I need to study the work.. and what is there to say about it.. it's seminal, influential, brilliant.

Qualità ottima e pagine della giusta misura.