PoeticsPoliticsMusicThe most famous sentence in Igor Stravinsky's autobiography reads: "Music is by its very nature powerless to express anything at all." When it appeared, this sentence surprised his audience. After all, Stravinsky had composed some of the most expressive music of the twentieth ...
Igor Stravinsky, Russian-born composer whose work had a revolutionary impact on musical thought and sensibility just before and after World War I, and whose compositions remained a touchstone of modernism for much of his long working life. His most notab
" So wrote Igor Stravinsky in his 1946 lectures at Harvard University, collected, translated, and printed as the Poetics of Music. Time and again throughout his career, Stravinsky grappled with this issue of freedom. The 1908 composition of music for the ballet The Firebird was a turning ...
Poetics of Music 1913, Paris. Coco Chanel present at the first, the presentation of Igor Stravinsky's 芦rite of Spring禄. Rhythmic dissonance in music and sometimes shocking choreography cause a storm of indignation. But Koko carries how Igor stirred up ... D Diamond,I Stravinsky,A Knodel,....
Prof. Bullard Trevor de Clercq The Dialogue of Extremes: James MacMillan as stylistic debtor to Igor Stravinsky 08/03/07 "Saying there is a little bit of Stravinsky in a piece is not really saying much at all."1 The point to this phrase is presumably not to discourage tracing Stravinsky'...
In the third and final section, we demonstrate how an understanding of Stravinsky's poetics, and of the ideas Stevens and Stravinsky seem to have held in common, might yield a deeper grasp of the musicality that characterizes Stevens's verse. We look at a range of poems that exhibit the ...