My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.
— Igor Stravinsky Modern

Rite of Spring, modernist composer

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From 'Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons'

Date / Period

1942

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Strange & Unusual

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https://archive.org/details/poeticsofmusicin00stra/page/64/mode/2up

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