Igor Stravinsky Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six LessonsCondition: NewEAN: 9780674678569ISBN: 9780674678569Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/01/1993Item Height: 184mmItem Length: 127mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 159gAuthor: Igor StravinskyLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0674678567Description: One of the greatest of contemporary composers has here set down in delightfully personal fashion his general ideas about music and some accounts of his own experience as a composer. Every concert-goer and lover of music will take keen pleasure in his notes about the essential features of music, the process of musical composition, inspiration, musical types, and musical execution. Throughout the volume are to he found trenchant 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. Musical people of every sort will welcome this first presentation in English of an unusually interesting book.Country/Region of Manufacture: USTranslator: Arthur Knodel, Ingolf DahlContributor: George A. Seferis (Preface by), Arthur Knodel (Translated by), Ingolf Dahl (Translated by)Genre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: Charles Eliot Norton LecturesRelease Year: 1993 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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