From ecstasy to meditation, from the “Sacrificial Dance” to “Hallelujah”, from paganism to monotheism: The religious experience in Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and “Symphony of Psalms”.

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Published in…. From the ritual of human sacrifice to the prayer of the Psalms, from the peak of brutality and cruelty to the peak of spiritual ascension. Stravinsky begins his musical journey with Barbarization (The Rite of Spring) and after a huge musical evolutionary process in which he takes musical materials from periods and styles …

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