One of the greatest of contemporary composers has set down
in personal fashion his general ideas about music and some interpretations 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 book there are comments on subjects such 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.
A, G. (2016) Poetics
of music in the form of Six lessons — Igor Stravinsky. Available at:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674678569 (Accessed: 5 May
2016)
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