Poetics Of Music In The Form Of Six Lessons - Tapa dura

POETICS OF MUSIC IN THE FORM OF SIX LESSONS by IGOR STRAVINSKY. First published in 1947. CONTENTS: Preface by DARIUS MILHAUD 1. Getting Acquainted 1 2. The Phenomenon of Music .... 21 3. The Composition of Music 45 4. Musical Typology 67 5. The Avatars of Russian Music .... 91 6. The Performance of Music . . .119 EPILOGUE PREFACE: THE POETICS OF MUSIC is like a searchlight turned by Stravinsky on his own work on one hand, and on music in general on the other. Every new work by this great composer is laden with far reaching significance. Each one possesses its own structure, its own tonal equilibrium, even its own moral climate. And the painstaking honesty the craf tsmanly exactitude of each work raises it to the heights of abstract thought and at the same time to that austerity, economy of means, and essential au thenticity which characterize the true laying bare of a soul. Igor Stravinskys book invites us to follow him into the secret world that is the counterpart to the world of sou