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• TITLE: How to Recognize the Important Influence of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring on Twentieth-Century Western Music and Modern and Contemporary World Music

  AUTHORS: Junxiang Liu

  KEYWORDS: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Historic Context, Musical Ontology, Aesthetic Characteristics

  JOURNAL NAME: Art and Design Review, Vol.10 No.1, February 16, 2022

  ABSTRACT: The Nationalist Period, the Neoclassical Period, and the Dodecaphony music (or Twelve Tone Music) Period are three important periods in the life of the Russian-born American music composer Stravinsky. The ballet The Rite of Spring, which was composed during the “Nationalist Period”, has become a classic work in the history of music for its original composition, ingenious layout and bold innovative spirit, and has become an outstanding landmark work because of its uniqueness and exclusiveness. It also had a significant impact on twentieth-century Western music and contemporary world music. In order to analyse, explain, summarise and outline the “unique charm” and “artistic significance” of this epoch-making work of The Rite of Spring, this article has its focus on the following aspects such as the background of the composition, its musical features (harmony, orchestration, melody, structure, etc.) and its aesthetic characteristics.