Studies in the music of Ravel and Stravinsky: Music 251A, Spring 2003
Use of various techniques in extended sections of Rite of Spring and La Valse
(All numbers indicated are that are not pages are rehearsal numbers in the full scores).
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Rite of Spring, Second Part: "The Exalted Sacrifice." (P. 86, Dover Score)
1. Doublings and spacings of chords: 79+1, 80, 82.
"Mystic Circle of the Young Girls" (P. 96)
3. Six solo violas and string accompaniment: 91-93 and 95-99.
"The Naming and Honoring of the Chosen One" (P. 102)
4. Doubling and spacing of chords: 104-109.
5. Abrupt contrasts within the same musical space: 111-118.
"Evocation of the Ancestors" (P. 115)
6. Doubling and spacing of chords: 121+3 to 124.
La Valse, Opening passages (to P. 29)