Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

Erscheinungsjahr 1970
ISBN: 978-0-674-67856-9
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 128 mm x 182 mm, Gewicht: 145 g

Reihe: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stravinsky, Igor

Weitere Mitwirkende

Knodel, Arthur

Seferis, George A.

Dahl, Ingolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles

Über Autor(innen)

Seferis, George A.
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.

Stravinsky, Igor
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 <i>The Firebird, Petrushka,</i> and The <i>Rite of Spring,</i> cemented his central place in the evolution of musical modernism.