Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)

Stravinsky, Igor

ISBN 10: 0674678567 / ISBN 13: 9780674678569

Published by Harvard University Press, 1970

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674678567
• ISBN 13: 9780674678569
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 6 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) was one of the twentieth century’s most admired and influential composers, conductors, and music theorists. His ballets and symphonies, including The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring, cemented his central place in the evolution of musical modernism.

George Seferis (1900–1971) was a Nobel Prize–winning Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat. One of the most influential Greek authors of his generation, he received honorary doctorates from Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton, and was made an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1957 to 1962, he served as Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom.