STRAVINSKY, OEDIPUS REX

Col. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original musical theater works of the twentieth century. This cle ar and concise guide, the first ever written on the work, describes the plot, the music and the staging in close detail and provides a fully documented discussion of the origins of Oedipus Rex in Stravinsky's own work and thinking. By placing the work in its socia l context, the author paints a vivid picture of Parisian artistic politics in the twenties, from which emerge...[Read more]