Igor Stravinsky: The Poetics and Politics of Music
The 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 century, from the lyric...
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Centre for Philosophical Research
2013-12-01
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Series: | Avant: Journal of Philosophical-Interdisciplinary Vanguard |
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Online Access: | http://avant.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/Howard-Gardner-Igor-Stravinsky.pdf |