Stravinsky's Music Analysis

Everyone in the world has grown up on Disney. Whether a person is a toddler or an elderly person, they have, at least heard of Disney. One thing that Disney is known for is having family friendly movies with phenomenal musical scores. A movie that will possibly stick out to older people would be Fantasia. This movie is famous for adding a motion picture storyline to classical music. Disney spared no expense in utilizing music from the best composers of all time. Some compositions were written by composers such as: Ludwig van Beethoven, Leopold Stokowski, Franz Schubert, and Igor Stravinsky. Each composer has earned their title of being one of the best composers in history in their own rite, but Stravinsky was able to create versatility in his
This holds true especially when it comes to learning something. Everyone that has become successful from learning a certain skill set had to start from somewhere, even child prodigies. Stravinsky is no exception to this rule. He was not freely able to study music until his father died while he was in college. His debut composition, The Rite of Spring, is regarded as one of the most famous and controversial pieces of the twentieth century. The Rite of Spring was completely rejected by theatres in Paris when it premiered. Ironically, this composition gave him international success. The way the piece was written completely shocked audiences to the point to where they did not know how to take it, so they did what people naturally do when they do not know about something. They rejected it, and they did so with a passion. The composition used a variety of rhythms and time signatures that make the music difficult to follow. The piece shifts tempos at least four times within the first few minutes. According to musical prodigy, Lewis Webb Jr, it almost sounds like an orchestra that is warming up on stage. When an orchestra warms up on stage, everyone checks their instruments to make sure they are tuned properly, they practice parts of the music they are about to play, or they simply chat with peers. If anyone heard an orchestra warming up, then it would sound like chaos. The Right of Spring achieves this chaotic sound through the use of polytonality, using more than one key at a time, as well as polyrhythms, using more than one rhythm at a time. The odd patterns that Stravinsky uses to structure this composition makes it relatively unappealing to the ear. The unique quality of The Rite of Spring revolutionized the way composers wrote music in the twentieth