Stravinsky source Quote: "polar attraction of sound"

Dear mozartk361-ga,

You requested information about Stravinsky’s quote, “polar attraction
of sound.”

I found the complete quote among the notes for a class on 20th century
music –

http://wcb.uchaswv.edu/wcb/schools/01/2/bdwright/13/modules/page10.html

The complete quote is as follows – “what one might term the polar
attraction of sound, of an interval, or even a complex of tones." 
Stravinsky considered himself to be a tonal composer, and this quote
was made in reference to his new conception of tonality.  Stravinsky’s
quote “reinterprets tonality as a static, rather than dynamic, force.”
(quote from site, not from Stravinsky!)

This quote seems to be from the book Poetics of music in the form of
six lessons by Igor Stravinsky, originally written in 1946.  Details
for this book are as follows –

1970 Bilingual ed. 
English Book ix, 187 p. port. 22 cm. 
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, ISBN: 0674678559 

This book is widely available in academic libraries.  It is also
available in paperback from Amazon –

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674678567/qid=1038981111/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-3460283-7543024?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I hope this response adequately addresses your request.
Thanks,
ragingacademic


Search Strategy:

Search was done using Copernic and the search strategy:
“polar attraction of sound” and Stravinsky

Fantastic, thank you
Andrew

Andrew -

thanks!
that was definitely fun, kind of like doing a bit of detective work!

ragingacademic