Western Civilization II / Unit 15 WC2 1423 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stravinsky's Rite and Schoenberg's Twelve Tones
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The idea
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Scythian fertility rites, was hissed and pelted at its Paris premiere in nineteen thirteen and canonical within years. Schoenberg abandoned tonality and built the twelve-tone method, subverting expectations audiences had trained since the Renaissance.
In practice
A riot, then a classic.
Where people slip
Anchor-only; no witness treats the composers.
Your place on the trail
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