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Igor Stravinsky: the Poetics and Politics of Music 199 Timothy D AVANT, Special Issue, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 www.avant.edu.pl/en 1 A Laboratory of Spring Front of the cover: Róża Puzynowska – II act. "The Chosen One" with Magdalena Ciechowicz – the First Soloist of The Polish National Ballet Company. 22 carat gold flakes, silver leaves and pow- dered gold with oil on canvas. Size 210 x 120 cm. Back of the cover: Róża Puzynowska – II act. "7 Ancestors, 3 Bear Skins and ROZA's selfportrait" with Polish National Ballet Dancers – Adam Kozal and Zbyszek Czapski-Kloda. Oil, 22 carat gold flakes and powdered gold on canvas. Size: 210 x 187 cm. 2 AVANT, Special Issue, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 www.avant.edu.pl/en TRENDS IN INTERDISCI PLINARY STUDIES AVANT 3/2013 A Laboratory of Spring Special Issue EDITORS OF THE ISSUE Witold Wachowski (managing editor), Przemysław Nowakowski, Monika Włudzik TORUŃ 3 A Laboratory of Spring ISSN: 2082-6710 AVANT. The Journal of the Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard AVANT. Pismo Awangardy Filozoficzno-Naukowej Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 (October–December 2013), Toruń 2013 The publication is a part of the Avant-Plus Publishing Series (Editorial Committee: Krzysztof Abriszewski, Katarzyna Kuś, Witold Wachowski). The texts are licensed under: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, except for paper by H. Gardner: kind permission of the Holder of the copyright. This online version of the journal is a referential version. Graphics design by Karolina Pluta & Antoni Domański. Cover: pictures by Róża Puzynowska. Address of the Editorial Office: skr. poczt. nr 34, U.P. Toruń 2. Filia, ul. Mazowiecka 63/65, 87-100 Toruń, Poland www.avant.edu.pl/en [email protected] Publisher: Centre for Philosophical Research / Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych, ul. Stawki 3/20, 00-193 Warszawa, Poland www.obf.edu.pl Academic cooperation: university workers and PhD students of Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland) The Journal has been registered in District Court in Warsaw, under number: PR 17724. AVANT is listed in: SCOPUS (Elsevier), The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Index Copernicus Journals Master List, Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), The Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities (CEJSH), EBSCO Publishing, PhilPapers, BazHum: Virtual Library of Science, Arianta, and others. 4 AVANT, Special Issue, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 www.avant.edu.pl/en ADVISORY BOARD Chairman: Włodzisław Duch (Nicolaus Copernicus University; Nanyang Technological University); Krzysztof Abriszewski (Nicolaus Copernicus Uni- versity); Ewa Bińczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University); Maciej Błaszak (Ad- am Mickiewicz University); Tadeusz Ciecierski (University of Warsaw); Fred Cummins (University College Dublin); Tom Froese (University of Tokyo); Ma- rek Kasperski (ThinkLab); Joel Krueger (University of Copenhagen); Dariusz Łukasiewicz (Kazimierz Wielki University); Jacek Malinowski (Polish Acad- emy of Sciences; Nicolaus Copernicus University); Sofia Miguens (University of Porto); Marcin Miłkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences); Jean-Luc Petit (Université de Strasbourg; Collège de France); Robert Poczobut (Uniwersytet w Białymstoku); Piotr Przybysz (Adam Mickiewicz University); Eleanor Rosch (University of California); Bartłomiej Świątczak (University of Science and Technology of China). PEER REVIEW BOARD Glenn Carruthers (Macquarie University); Igor Dolgov (New Mexico State University); Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St. Petersburg State University); Kath- leen Coessens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Maciej Dombrowski (University of Wrocław); Judith Enriquez (University of North Texas); Katalin Farkas (Cen- tral European University); Rafał Gruszczyński (Nicolaus Copernicus Universi- ty); Tomasz Jarmużek (Nicolaus Copernicus University); Andrzej Kapusta (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University); Piotr Konderak (Maria Curie- Skłodowska University); Marek McGann (University of Limerick); Kajetan Młynarski (Jagiellonian University); Georg Northoff (University of Ottawa); Andrzej W. Nowak (Adam Mickiewicz University); Peter S. Petralia (Man- chester Metropolitan University); Witold Płotka (University of Gdańsk); John Sutton (Macquarie University). Additionally, AVANT engages occasional peer reviewers. TRANSLATORS Ewa Bodal; Przemysław Nowakowski; Nelly Strehlau; Witold Wachowski; Monika Włudzik. 5 A Laboratory of Spring EDITORIAL BOARD AND COOPERATORS Managing Editor of the issue: Witold Wachowski Thematic Editors: Łukasz Afeltowicz (Nicolaus Copernicus University; Sociol- ogy); Aleksandra Derra (Nicolaus Copernicus University; Philosophy of Lan- guage & Philosophy of Science); Paweł Gładziejewski (Nicolaus Copernicus University; Social Cognitive Science); Witold Hensel (University of Bialystok; Theory of Knowledge); Tomasz Komendziński (Nicolaus Copernicus Universi- ty; Interdisciplinary Studies, Enactivism & Neurophenomenology); Victor Loughlin (University of Antwerp; Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science); Georg Theiner (Villanova University; Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science) Statistical Editor: Tomasz Górny Editor of the Review Section: Przemysław Nowakowski Editor for the Media: Błażej Brzostek Language Editors: Ewa Bodal (Nicolaus Copernicus University); Paulina Matysiak (Nicolaus Copernicus University); : Marta Piasecka (University of Warsaw) Victoria Stone (University of Bristol); Nelly Strehlau (Nicolaus Co- pernicus University); Monika Włudzik (Nicolaus Copernicus University). Technical Editor: Antoni Wójcik Art Editor: Karolina Pluta Editorial Secretary: Jan Iwańczyk Executive Editor: Witold Wachowski 6 AVANT, Special Issue, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 www.avant.edu.pl/en Table of contents Preface 9 A Laboratory of Spring 13 d i a r y Millicent Hodson & Kenneth Archer: Landmarks in the Life of the Recon- structed Sacre. Seven Days from Several Months at the Mariinsky 19 original papers Pieter C. van den Toorn: From The Firebird to The Rite of Spring: Meter and Alignment in Stravinsky’s Russian-Period Works 45 Hanna Järvinen: “They Never Dance”: The Choreography of Le Sacre du Printemps, 1913 69 Lucy Weir: Primitive Rituals, Contemporary Aftershocks: Evocations of the Orientalist ‘Other’ in four productions of Le Sacre du printemps 111 Helen Sills: Stravinsky and Time 147 Piotr Przybysz: Music and emotions 175 Howard Gardner: Igor Stravinsky: The Poetics and Politics of Music 199 Timothy D. Taylor: Stravinsky and Others 245 Richard Taruskin: Resisting The Rite 269 i n t e r v i e w The Chosen One. An interview with Róża Puzynowska 309 List of contributors to this issue 373 7 A Laboratory of Spring polish section d z i a ł p o l skojęzyczny Przedmowa 319 Laboratorium wiosny 323 Piotr Przybysz: Muzyka a emocje 327 Streszczenia 351 Przegląd literatury 355 Wybrana. Wywiad z Różą Puzynowską 363 8 AVANT, Special Issue, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 www.avant.edu.pl/en AVANT, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 ISSN: 2082-6710 avant.edu.pl/en Preface Dear Readers, We are pleased to present a special issue of Avant, an online version of an- thology "A Laboratory of Spring" that will be published in print in English as well as in Polish. It is a remarkable and multidimensional collection published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky. The articles cover the field of musicology as well as history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, ethnography and cognitive science of music. We would like to take this opportunity to extend our special gratitude to the Peer-Reviewers – outstanding specialists in the aforementioned fields – as well as to some Authors who are absent here, but who supported us during the preparation of this issue. Editorial Board Torun–Warsaw Winter 2013 9 A Laboratory of Spring 10 AVANT, Special Issue, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 www.avant.edu.pl/en 11 A Laboratory of Spring 12 AVANT, Special Issue, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 www.avant.edu.pl/en AVANT, Vol. IV, No. 3/2013 ISSN: 2082-6710 avant.edu.pl/en A Laboratory of Spring. Introduction It sometimes happens that when we go to a concert and the first sounds of music fill the air we are forced to discreetly silence our light-heartedly chat- tering companions. But at times, we also have to put the music on hold and give the words their due. An occasion such as the 100th anniversary of the premiere of "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky – celebrated in 2013 – is one of those moments when somebody ought to speak up out of necessity, with authority, and the usual pomp and circumstance. Stravinsky’s work certainly deserves the high- est accolades, and has received plenty. But not all commentators have been equally kind. Each Stravinsky has his own Adorno. This volume is not quite an instance of the latter. It is not so much a tribute to the work or to the composer but to a certain epoch. "The Rite of Spring" – brought into existence by the creative strokes of Stravinsky, Vaslav Nijinsky as well as Sergei Diaghilev, painted against the social and cultural backdrop of their era – shines brightly in its own right but has also led the path for many others. It is not an isolated, unchanging creation which passes through many decades and generations without being transformed itself. Of course, source analyses, attempts at reconstruction or elimination of later influences are in- credibly tempting and enrich our musical culture. However, there is also an- other temptation: Is it possible to reconstruct the sensitivity of the original spectators? This is why asking what really happened on May 29, 1913 at the Paris Théâtre des Champs Élysées is a bit like asking what happened on Feb- ruary 14, 1900 at the Hanging Rock. It is hard to say if
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