What's the sonority on the first POUNDING part of Rite of Spring.....

[Jaxamillian]

I have to know what it is.  Can aynone with a score tell me what is going on there?  I could try to use my ear but it's so weird that I would probably be missing something and I just want to play it for my self on the piano. 

I'm not sure if its the beginning of a different movement or something, but its that pounding part in the strings and low strings that comes in after that "tick tock tick tock" like part with the pizzicatto strings.

Thanks a million.

[gmstudio]

If I'm interpreting you correctly, I think you mean the beginning of the "Dances of the Young Girls"...Rehearsal #13.  It's just strings.

Basses - F flat, C flat
Cellos - A flat, F flat
Violas - G, B flat
Violin II - D flat, E flat

[jochanaan]

If I'm interpreting you correctly, I think you mean the beginning of the "Dances of the Young Girls"...Rehearsal #13.  It's just strings...

Except on the accented chords where all eight horns join in on the same pitches.

[gmstudio]

Except on the accented chords where all eight horns join in on the same pitches.

Well, yeah, but I thought he was just asking about the string part.

[karlhenning]

An E-flat dominant-seventh chord in first inversion, over an F-flat major triad.  Genius!

[Jaxamillian]

man..Thanks guys.  Beautiful-I'll probly wait til my folks leave to really pound that out on the piano.

I love it.

What an awesome part.  Beautifully brutal

[Montpellier]

In case you're interested, a piano score exists for four hands.   Sure, you only have two but you may be able to use the bits you like.  It's difficult though. 

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486445399.html

Dover also do the orchestral score.  I'm not sure which revision it represents.  He made several small revisions.

[Grazioso]

http://www.keepingscore.org/ You might find the Rite of Spring section of interest, with its excerpts that couple audio with a follow-along score.

[jochanaan]

...Dover also do the orchestral score.  I'm not sure which revision it represents.  He made several small revisions.

I've got the Dover score, which is a reprint of a Russian edition dated 1965--probably a late revision.  I also have the "Danse Sacrale" in a college-level music anthology, and there are many differences betwen that and the Dover score, including the length of the measures.  (The anthology edition, possibly a reprint of the first edition, has many 5/8 measures where the Dover score has two measures, 2/8 plus 3/8.)