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in Greek], ed. (1937). Ἀριστοτέλους Περὶ ποιητικῆς. Ἑλληνική Βιβλιοθήκη (in Greek). Vol.2. Translated by Μενάρδου, Σιμος [in Greek]. Ἀθῆναι: Kollaros.

the light of the ideas of Remain Rolland, who, as youknow, heard "saber-elashings," the noise of battle, and The nucleus made up by the group of The Fivefound opposition in another quarter where, simply byvirtue of the brilliance of his powerful talent, the per-

nal assaults we are speaking about. The interpreta-tion of their works is governed by extra-musical con- Of all the books that I have read in my life, only a handful of books have affected me in a meaningful way. When it comes to books on music even fewer made made a lasting impression. Igor Stravinsky’s book Poetics of Music, with a magnificent introduction by the poet, George Seferis, is one of those few books on music that left such an impression on my life as well as my life in the arts that it has become a sort of handbook for me almost as often as I write about music. And that goes for any form, any dialect, and any genre of music. Once read this book seeps into the mind’s mind and you will never be able to listen to music again without remembering something or the other that Stravinsky said in this slim but memorable work. to live apart from the main stream of the present, andin which circulated a salubrious air, well adapted to corruption of the Russian critical spirit has not sparedmusic. Down to the first ten years of the twentieth celled in the French op6ra comique along with a fewof his compatriots, at the very height of the Wagnerianvogue. Is not this the tradition that is continued in

personal creation of the composer." If the growinginterest in musical ethnography is bought at the priceof such heresies, it would perhaps be preferable that the legitimate meaning of these terms, it is to empha-size the normal and natural use of the dogmatic ele- Lord, C., "Aristotle's History of Poetry", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 104 (1974) 195–228

Music that is based on ontological time is generallydominated by the principle of similarity. The music

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