This paper studies the process of Stravinsky's musical language prior to his most famous work The Rite of Spring was written in 1913. In this work, Stravinsky's diverse musical language and orchestration, evolved through Fire Bird and Petrushka, have matured and became his representative musical style. There are two important events in Stravinsky's life, one is an encounter with Rimsky-Korsakov, and the other is the collaboration with Diaghilev and going out into Paris, France. Rimsky-Korsakov helped Stravinsky understand orchestra and instrumentation accurately, and through this effort, Stravinsky created his unique orchestration style. Stravinsky's first work after studying with this well-informed teacher of orchestration was a symphony, and ballet music such as Fire Bird followed immediately. Quotations of folk melodies and dynamic rhythms, along with orchestration techniques for timbre became more conspicuous in his next work, Petrushka. Therefore, diverse expression styles through the use of Russian folk melodies, and characteristic rhythms all made their way to Stravinsky's inherent orchestration style crystallized in The Rite of Spring.

My study is a critical examination of the historiography of Korean musical scholarship and a more comprehensive view of Korean music and history. The main goal of this study is to elaborate a new form of rhetoric and strategy for both historical and ethnographic studies of Korean music. By exploring the various attempts of earlier scholars to establish indigenous musical scholarship, my study details how musical scholarship can symbolically represent the core of historical tension and amnesia which has resulted in conflict between indigenous vs. foreign, tradition vs. modernity, and past vs. present in modern Korean society. Following the spirit of Michel Foucault’s dialogics and micropolitics, my study explores the following theme: why and how academic discourses have played an ambiguous role in encouraging, and at the same time discouraging monolithic and canonized language use and scholarly convention. Furthermore, my observation on discourse reveals the interaction produced between power and resistance in the larger process of institutionalization and the concomitant processes of de-institutionalization.