2. Ogives (Gothic Arches)

4. Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear

6. Parade (1917): Cubism, Surrealism, and the Ballets Russes Scenario by Jean Cocteau Music by Satie Sets and Costumes by Pablo Picasso Choreagraphed by Léonide Massine

7. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Born in Russia (St. Petersburg), lived in France, Switzerland, and the US Early ballets with Diaghalev – large, rhythmic, brash – establish pre-war reputation as precocious enfant terrible

8. Stravinsky’s Three Periods Early: The “Russian” Period “ Primitivism” - characterized by “folk” elements: Simple, but exotic melodies Repetitive, forceful rhythms Major works (ballets): Petrouchka The Rite of Spring Les Noces Middle: The Neo-Classical Period A self-conscious return to styles, forms, and gestures of an earlier time – referential, stylized Major works: Pulcinella Octet for Winds Symphony of Psalms The Rake’s Progress Late Style Cultivation of an austere, astringent, highly expressive, complex but stripped-down compositional approach Major works: Agon (ballet) Requien Canticles In Memoriam Dylan Thomas

9. Neo-Classicism: From Puclinella to The Rake’s Progress Pulcinella (1920) Based on sketches by Pergolesi The Rake’s Progress (1951) Libretto by W.H. Auden, Based on a series of Hogarth engravings

10. In Memoriam Dylan Thomas (1954) 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.