The complex authorship of Stravinsky's Poetics of Music, as a result of the collaboration between the Russian composer himself, the composer and critic Alexis Roland-Manuel and the Russian émigré thinker Pierre Souvtchinsky, has been well established by now. This article traces the...
with the question of music and time in the Poetics rather justifies Horlacher's decision to make no mention of khronos in her book, despite the appeal Stravinsky and Souvtchinsky's views on music and time have had in the musical world. Yet, it should be noted that their distinction betwee...
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 ...
whom he had known for many years. In autumn 1939 Stravinsky had visited theUnited Statesto deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures atHarvard University(later published as theThe Poetics of Music, 1942), and in 1940 he and his new wife settled permanently in Hollywood, California. They became...