Stravinskian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Stravinskian
First recorded in 1920–25; Stravinsky + -an
Example Sentences
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It’s about the texture of the harmonies, the rhythms, the quotations, the Stravinskian drive, the klezmer and Jewish melodic style.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017
An instrumental sextet — violin, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, prominent accordion and piano — sound just right, be it one minute Mexican, the next Stravinskian.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2017
Orchestra Variations is a mesh of Stravinskian high bassoons, Reichian pulsations, tangled trumpet fanfares.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2013
The finale includes a magnificent — and perilously chromatic — horn solo and a return of the vigorous, Stravinskian scoring of the first movement.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2011
Especially effective is the naively Stravinskian Wild Rumpus, in which Max and his cohort dance a childish bacchanale in praise of anarchy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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