The Rite of Spring the four-part piano score published in 1913. There have been numerous variants of the English translations; those shown are from the 1967 edition of the score. Lawrence Morton, in a study of the origins of "The Rite", records that in 1907–08 Stravinsky set to music two poems from Sergey Gorodetsky's collection "Yar". Another poem in the anthology, which Stravinsky did not set but is likely to have read, is "Yarila" which, Morton observes, contains many of the basic elements from which "The Rite of Spring" developed, including pagan rites, sage elders, and the propitiatory sacrifice of a young maiden: "The
The Rite of Spring orchestras would be reluctant to pay a second rental charge from two publishers to match the full work and the revised Sacrificial Dance; moreover, the revised dance could only be published in America. The 1948 score provided copyright protection to the work in America, where it had lapsed, but Boosey (who acquired the Editions Russe catalogue) did not have the rights to the revised finale. The 1929 score as revised in 1948 forms the basis of most modern performances of "The Rite." Boosey & Hawkes reissued their 1948 edition in 1965, and produced a newly engraved edition (B&H 19441) in