Sentence:  In all his miscalculations , Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers ' inspirations - representing many peoples , time periods and styles - into his own <WSD>music</WSD> by warping the harmony , melody , or form , to verify his own experiments . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner