Poetics of music in the form of six lessons

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...

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Main Author: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Other Authors: Knodel, Arthur, 1916-, Dahl, Ingolf, 1912-1970, Seferis, George, 1900-1971
Format: Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge, MA ; London : Harvard University Press, [1970]
Series:Harvard paperback ; HP 66.
Physical Description:
xiii, 142 pages : portrait ; 19 cm.
Subjects:
Music.
Contents:
  • 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.

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