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 music by <WSD>warping</WSD> the harmony , melody , or form , to verify his own experiments . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story