Sentence:  In all his miscalculations , Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers ' inspirations - <WSD>representing</WSD> many peoples , time periods and styles - into his own music by warping the harmony , melody , or form , to verify his own experiments . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol