LES NOCES Mail mleeea IGOR STRAVINSKYLES NOCES in Full Score IGOR STRAVINSKY Although Igor Stravinsky's score is subtiled “Russian Cho: Scenes in Four ‘Tableaux’—and was premiered as a dance work in 1923 by the Ballets Russes {Les Noces i really a.cantata for choi, solo voral quartet, chorus, four pianos ad percussion. “There is no plot in the usual sense—in fact, Stravinsky’ intention was that it should be stage as a lind of dicertisement, a scenic ceremony in which he would make absolutely free use of both pagan anc Christan elements in Russian village wedding ritual and customs” (from the Preface Despite its stormy entical eewption, Lav Noces is now regarded asa modern classic, one of Stravnshy’s most important, innovative and unified works, ll of cmiginal and daring ensemble and instrumental experimentation. “It is «rendering in sound and vision of the peasant soul, nits gravity ts ceiberate and simple-minded intricacy in is sublly varied rhythms in its deep underearrents of excitement...” (H. 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