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Poetics of music in the form of six lessons / by Igor Stravinsky ; preface by George Seferis ; translated by Arthur Knodel and Ingolf Dahl.
LIBRA - Rare ML410.S932 A13 1970 Potok copy
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LIBRA - Special ML410.S932 A13 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
- Series:
- Harvard paperback ; HP 66.
- A Harvard paperback ; HP 66
- Standardized Title:
- Poétique musicale sous forme de six leçons. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music.
- Music--Instruction and study.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 142 pages, 4 unnumbered pages. : portrait ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [1970]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Getting acquainted
- The phenomenon of music
- The composition of music
- Musical typology
- The avatars of Russian music
- The performance of music.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy inscribed "For the Potoks, With all my love. Seth".
- Potok Collection copy is "Fifth Printing, 1979".
- ISBN:
- 0674678567
- 9780674678569
- OCLC:
- 61743510
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