How Stravinsky tricks your brain into hearing magic ("The Firebird")

Stravinsky's first ballet summons evil spirits and a mystical phoenix with chromatic music that happens to be catchy as hell. 0:00 - Introduction 1:58 - Part One: The Russian Tradition 9:12 - Part Two: Leit-harmony 19:34 - Part Three: Folk Music Sources: McFarland, Mark. Leit-harmony, or Stravinsky’s Musical Characterization in the Firebird. International Journal of Musicology 3, 1994. Stravinsky, Igor & Craft, Robert. Conversations With Igor Stravinsky. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. Stravinsky, Igor & Craft, Robert. Expositions and Developments. University of California Press, 1959. Taruskin, Richard. Chernomor to Kaschei: Harmonic Sorcery; or, Stravinsky’s “Angle.” Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 38, No. 1. University of California Press, 1985. Walsh, Stephen. Stravinsky - A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882 - 1934. University of California Press, 1999. The music underscoring this video was composed by me. Purchase here: https://briankrock.bandcamp.com/ Listen here: https://linktr.ee/brian.krock