The Rite of Spring in Miniature Score

With this brilliant and uncompromising work, the most famous musical work of the 20th century, Stravinsky changed the course of modern music forever. Says GroveÍs: "every canon of harmony seems to have been violated ... yet with all its deliberate crudity and violence the ïRiteÍ is a clearly planned and perfectly controlled and coordinated piece of music [which] has for long been accepted universally as a masterpiece and is in the repertory of every large symphony orchestra...."