The Sonata Structure Of Stravinsky's Neoclassical Symphony

Neoclassicism is an significant creative time in Stravinsky's whole life.In the meanwhile,it is his longest period.This essay analyzed Symphonies of Wind Instruments,The first movement of Symphony in C major and The first movement of Three movements Symphonies,and expounded sonata form in these works,thus comprehend Stravinsky's creative features during this time.First of all,the essay discussed the background of Neoclassicism,it concludes the reasons of Neoclassicism's beginning,thoughts and connotations,aesthetic conceptions in Neoclassicism,and summarized Stravinsky's concepts.Secondly,it analyzed modes, harmonies, tempo, rhythm, metre, theme's development,form in the tree symphonies respectively.His Neoclassicism styles was summarized by finding these three works' rules and the development clue in his compositions.We can make a conclusion through detailed demonstration:The three works of Stravinsky have Classical time's sketches in ternary form,but its concrete features have obvious differences compared to Classical time's sonata form.Harmonies have Classical time's clue,but multideck chords?additional notes chords?mode harmonies?discordant notes' not solution have harmony styles before baroque period and classical harmony's clue,also combined with modern harmony style.They reflects complicated harmonies.Melodic development mainly applied Baroque period's brief melody styles.Tempo?rhythm ?metre changed less that compared with his early time in Russia.In Symphony in C major, it did not change tempo at all.These style's creature are both belong to Neoclassicism and Stravinsky himself.