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Thoughts on Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Pierre Souvtchinsky
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These Canticles (1965–1966) do not make up a liturgical Requiem and are not designed to be played and sung in the course of a funeral service. As Stravinsky himself has said, they form a ‘Monumentum Spirituale’ (to the memory of Helen Buchanan Seeger, according to its inscription; but perhaps, too, for another, for a different ritual of the imagination …)

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 86 , Autumn 1968 , pp. 6 - 7
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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