Poetics of music : in the form of six lessons / by Igor Stravinsky ; translated by Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl.
| Author/creator | Stravinsky, Igor |
| Other author | Knodel, Arthur, 1916-2001 translator. |
| Other author | Dahl, Ingolf, 1912-1970, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1947. |
| Description | xi, 142 pages ; 19 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Poétique musicale sous forme de six leçons. English |
| Series | The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1939-1940 Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; 1939-1940. ^A313766 |
| Contents | Getting acquainted -- The phenomenon of music -- The composition of music -- Musical typology -- The avatars of Russian music -- The performance of music. |
| Abstract | 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 be 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. |
| LCCN | 47011688 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.S932 A13 1947 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |