Igor Stravinsky Quotes on Composition
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'What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.'
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'Much of the music is a Merzbild, put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying the Messenger. I also mean the fusion of such widely divergent types of music as the Folies Bergeres tune at No. 40 ('The girls enter, kicking') and the Wagnerian 7th-chords at Nos. 58 and 74.'
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'Composers combine notes, that's all.'