Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Rehearsal Numbers 3-5
Further down the firm denial of Fux’s Gradus Ad Parnassum: Notice the bassoons doing a well-designed dove-tail in perfect 4ths. Mad.
The English Horn seems to be spinning around itself, like a kid on a merry go round
In each section, I’m beginning to see the dovetailing of each instrument. Strong move: Keeps the sound of an instrument limited by breath present without having to kill a woodwind player outright (or watching him/her go blue in the face)
