ocr: The Shape ot a Ballet Score PART ONE NTRUDUCTIUN. Stavinsky described this three-minute, largely meterless section as "the awakening of nature, the scratching, gnawing, - - wiggling of birds and beasts"- and the sense of awakening is palpable in the music. The "Introduction is organized into two nalves, each of which begins from a point of rest and builds to a climax (the second larger than the first). The piercing bassoon melody (Theme 1) declares at the outset the "primitive - tone that characterizes the entire score. 1
