Poetics of music in the form of six lessons
By: [by] Igor Stravinsky. English translation by Arthur Knodell and Ingolf Dahl. Pref. by George Seferis.
Edition: Bilingual ed.
Series: The Charles Eliot Norton lectures,; 1939-40
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism
Description: One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Throughout the volume are his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution, as well his comments on such subjects as Wagnerism, the operas of Verdi, musical taste, musical snobbery, the influence of political ideas on Russian music under the Soviets, musical improvisation as opposed to musical construction, the nature of melody, and the function of the critic of music.
Notes: In French and English.