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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Main Author: Howard Gardner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre for Philosophical Research 2013-12-01
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