Poetics Of Music In The Form Of Six Lessons
by Igor Stravinsky
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Author: Igor StravinskyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-04
ISBN: 1443726915
Number of pages: 152
Publisher: Hamlin Press
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Book Review: much chaff and a little wheat
Summary: 2 Stars
There are composers like Arnold Schoenberg and Pierre Boulez who are also gifted communicators and insightful students of music history and theory. Then there are composers like Igor Stravinsky, whose genius of expression lies purely in non-discursive domains.
This series of lecture transcripts gives the impression of an animated but disorganized speaker extemporaneously presenting on vague topics without preparation. His basic unit of thought seems to be about the size of a sentence, and Stravinsky never develops ideas or sustains his attention for more than a few paragraphs. Occasionally his observations have anecdotal value, and there are buried gems, but there is much chaff and little wheat in this slender book.
The best thing I got out of reading it is a mild sense of personal connection to one of the great musical minds of the twentieth century, but he gives little insight into the nature of his genius or his method.
PS - I picked up my copy second-hand for less than $3. I am surprised to see how expensive this book has become, considering its length.
Summary of Poetics Of Music In The Form Of Six Lessons
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 souPoetry Books
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