Score and Music Sample
Stravinsky developed here the original technique of composition that was almost unknown in the European classical tradition, however was always typical for the folk music. The main features of this are the stubborn repetition of small and simple melodic phrases (called in Russian «попевки» – popevki), played in a syncopated rhythm, with an irregular meter (changing the time signature almost in every bar); the multi-voiced texture is not a real polyphony, but rather a heterophony, that represents monophony or so to say “ragged unison”, where the melody of one instrument is accompanied and embellished with the fragments of the same melody. Here is the most telling example:
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