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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stravinsky, Igor.
- Series:
- The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; Series
- The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; Series ; v.1939-1940
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music theory.
- Composition (Music).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Poetics of Music collects Igor Stravinsky's 1939-1940 Norton Lectures, delivered at the height of his neoclassical period. Ranging from the phenomenology of rhythm to the fate of high culture in the Soviet Union, he explores both the creative potential and the limitations arising from fidelity to tradition and submission to formal constraints.
- Contents:
- Getting Acquainted
- The Phenomenon of Music
- The Composition of Music
- Musical Typology
- The Avatars of Russian Music
- The Performance of Music
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Foreword / Vijay Iyer -- Preface / George Seferis -- Getting Acquainted -- The phenomenon of music -- The composition of music -- Musical Typology -- The avatars of Russian music -- The performance of music -- Epilogue.
- Includes index.
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- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30301-6
- 0-674-30299-0
- OCLC:
- 1531327317
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