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

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

Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky delivered these six "lessons" at Harvard from 1939-1940. Stravinsky discusses composition, the function of the critic, modern Russian music (as of 1939), what drives him to compose, and what role the performers of music have and should assume. Stravinsky's brash humor permeates the lectures, but also delivers an honest look inside the mind of one of the greatest musical innovators of our time. Very entertaining reading.

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