Stravinsky - His Thoughts and Music

This book is an attempt at a new interpretation of Stravinsky's thoughts about music and art, an interpretation made in dialogue with the philosophy of new music and 19th-century artistic ideas. It is also a proposal for a new method of analysing the construction of his musical masterpieces (for example a proposal of new formal sound-units: partons with perceptual invariance), a method in-spired by research into cognitive psychology. Furthermore, in the analysis of Stravinsky's music, the author emphasises its connection with the Eastern and Western traditions of European culture and links with Plato's triad of values.

About the author

Alicja Jarz¿bska is a musicologist and professor emeritus of the Jagiellonian Uni-versity, Poland. She was the director of the Institute of Musicology from 2002 to 2008. She lectured, among others, at universities in the United States (The State University of New York), Germany (Universität Regensburg), Austria (Universität Salzburg), Italy (Universita di Roma ¿La Sapienzä), Slovakia (A. Komenski University) and also at the Polish Institute in Moscow.

Product details

• Authors: Alicja Jarz¿bska, Alicja Jarzebska
• Assisted by: Maciej Golab (Editor), Lindsay Davidson (Translation)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2020
• EAN: 9783631816905
• ISBN: 978-3-631-81690-5
• No. of pages: 390
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 27 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 570 g
• Illustrations: 102 Abb.
• Series: Eastern European Studies in Musicology
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous