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  2. Columbia Symphony Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    In 1977, a recording of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra playing the "Sacrificial Dance" from The Rite of Spring, conducted by Stravinsky, was selected by NASA to be included on the Voyager Golden Record, a gold-plated copper record that was sent into space on the Voyager space craft. The record contained sounds and images which had been ...

  3. The Rite of Spring - Wikipedia

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    The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.

  4. Igor Stravinsky - Wikipedia

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    Opening measures of the "Sacrificial Dance" from The Rite of Spring, showing the odd meters and chords [g] While composing The Firebird, Stravinsky conceived an idea for a work about what he called "a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a young girl dance herself to death". [60]

  5. The Rite of Spring discography - Wikipedia

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    This is a sound and video discography of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring. The work was premiered in Paris on May 29, 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. It was presented by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and was conducted by Pierre Monteux. The list includes many of the most noted ...

  6. Quintuple meter - Wikipedia

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    Stravinsky, "Sacrificial Dance" (excerpt), from The Rite of Spring This treatment of rhythm subsequently became so habitual for Stravinsky that, when he composed his Symphony in C in 1938–1940, he found it worth observing that the first movement had no changes of meter at all (though the metrical irregularities in the third movement of the ...

  7. File : Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Sacrificial Dance.mid

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  8. Contents of the Voyager Golden Record - Wikipedia

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    The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre Du Printemps), Part II: The Sacrifice: VI. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) Igor Stravinsky: Columbia Symphony Orchestra/Igor Stravinsky (conductor) Recorded at the Ballroom of Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, New York on January 6, 1960 Modern classical music / Ballet: 4:35 Germany / Canada / United States

  9. The Rite of Spring (The Bad Plus album) - Wikipedia

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    The Rite of Spring is a 2014 studio album by American jazz trio The Bad Plus. It is the group's ninth studio album. It is an interpretation of the Igor Stravinsky orchestral composition. [6] [7] The trio first performed the music live in 2011. [8]