Lawrence Kramer and Susan McClary incorporated diverse perspectives and critical theory to form the “new” form of this academic discipline. For 10 points each:
[10e] In contrast to music theory, what field synthesizes large-scale perspectives on the history, interpretation, and perception of music?
ANSWER: musicology [accept new musicology]
[10m] This “new musicologist,” who died in 2022, attacked purely musical analyses of The Rite of Spring as sterile in his chapter “Stravinsky and the Subhuman.” This UC Berkeley professor wrote a six-volume Oxford History of Western Music.
ANSWER: Richard Taruskin [or Richard Filler Taruskin]
[10h] Taruskin examined the parallels between the primitivism of The Rite of Spring and the “life as liturgy” of this later Stravinsky ballet, which is unusually scored for four pianos, percussion, and choir.
ANSWER: Les Noces (“lay nohss”) [or The Wedding; or Svadebka]
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