Igor Stravinsky

Question 1

What does art have?

Answer 1

Intention

Question 2

What are poetics believed to be in the art community?

Answer 2

The purest form as it relies on nothing but words

Question 3

Who is the informed/expert opinion in igor’s book?

Answer 3

Himself

Question 4

What is the artist’s opinion? Explain how this correlates with the viewer’s

Answer 4

The artist is always right - viewers can have an opinion but the artist’s idea is the correct idea

Question 5

What is dogmatic?

Answer 5

Dogmatic meaning principles laid down by authority

Question 7

What will happen to people how takes this class?

Answer 7

Their identity will be challenged

Question 8

“Every formal process proceeds from a principle and the study of principle requires precisely what we call dogma” this quote by Igor, what does it mean?

Answer 8

Be dogmatic - be authoritative, be inarguable

Question 9

What is conceive and perceive?

Answer 9

Conceive is to create

Perceive is to see

Question 10

What does Igor believe of himself?

Answer 10

Believes himself an expert

Question 11

What is “dogmatic confidences”?

Answer 11

Igor is giving an unarguable perspective

Question 12

If Igor wasn’t being a revolutionary, then what was he being?

Answer 12

Trying to be original

Question 13

What does Igor say about simple tones?

Answer 13

They are pleasant but they aren’t considered music

Question 14

What does it take to make music?

Answer 14

Takes a human being

Question 15

What type of human being can make music?

Answer 15

Someone who is sensitive to these sounds but is gifted with with the aptitude to put them in an order

Question 16

What is constantly passing through our minds?

Answer 16

passive Music

Question 17

What is active music compared to passive music?

Answer 17

Active is what humans creates

Question 18

What is “added benefits of artifice”?

Answer 18

Must do something to generate something - artifice is a trick

Question 19

What happens for those who have studied music when they go to create it?

Answer 19

It will be “correct” as there are certain methods that are taught and that would be used

Question 20

Can history help or ruin music?

Answer 20

Too much history can make it difficult for music to move forward and evolve

Question 21

What are our ideas about anything?

Answer 21

Preconceived

Question 22

If our ideas are preconceived notions, how can history affect that?

Answer 22

History is judge to be bad in this case as we are influenced by it

Question 23

What is the act of creating the same as? Explain

Answer 23

Act of creating is the act of speculating - not knowing where the idea is going

Question 24

What is music that takes place in time?

Answer 24

Rhythm

Question 25

What does music require?

Answer 25

Your memory

Question 26

What is a pulse or meter?

Answer 26

Time in real life

Question 27

What is temp or speed?

Answer 27

References time in music

Question 28

Is rhythm impacted by tempo?

Answer 28

No

Question 29

How does your life influence the music?

Answer 29

What we are going though impacts our perspective of the music

Question 30

What is expressive time?

Answer 30

Think of ocean in and out - takes it time

Question 31

What is similarity?

Answer 31

Similarity is hidden = works through problem = more valuable

Question 32

What is contrast?

Answer 32

Contrast is everywhere = immediate problem = do opposite to solve

Question 33

What is consonant and what is dissonant?

Answer 33

Consonant is the same | Dissonant is change

Question 34

What did masters of music leave out to are it easier?

Answer 34

The harmony

Question 35

What are people being taught today to leave out?

Answer 35

The harmony but shouldn't

Question 36

Why did music have to be simpler?

Answer 36

To dumb it down for the people

Question 37

What part of music is always remembered?

Answer 37

The melody

Question 38

What is the most difficult part to create in music?

Answer 38

The melody

Question 39

What is Beethoven compared to Bellini?

Answer 39

Beethoven - simple and remembered | Bellini - complex and not heard anymore

Question 40

What did Wagner do?

Answer 40

Back to the past to get back on track for music

Question 41

What are the profound upheavals Stravinsky refers to?

Answer 41

We are losing our understanding of what is important in life which is art

Question 42

What are the modern man's values?

Answer 42

It is no longer art = it has become more about money than enjoyment

Question 43

What is the "fundamental laws of human equilibrium"?

Answer 43

A balance between all things in our lives - a balance between feeding your mind, body and soul and still seeking substance (job or relationship)

Question 44

What does Stravinsky say is happening to our fundamental laws of human equilibrium?

Answer 44

They are being violated - art is no longer in balance with the rest of our lives and we have allowed this to happen

Question 45

What does "spiritus ubi vult spirat" mean?

Answer 45

The Spirit blows where It wills

Question 46

How does "Spiritus ubi vult spirat" apply to Stravinsky's theory about music?

Answer 46

The spirit is the inspiration that motivates us to create

Question 47

What does Stravinsky mean when he's says that "people question the direction of the wind of the spirit is taking, not the rightness of the artisan's work"?

Answer 47

Questioning why someone made the art is challenging the spirit to create - we are better off asking if the art was well made

Question 48

What does Stravinsky mean by the "periphery of a work"?

Answer 48

Means the easiest part that we can understand - inexperienced music-lovers will cling to the basics of music instead of exploring deeply into it to discover the real meaning

Question 49

What is the essence of music?

Answer 49

The idea to discover the fullness of the work of art and not just be satisfied with the surface

Question 50

Why is criticism useless?

Answer 50

Because you can never really understand the exact motivations which drove a person to create the art

Question 51

What is music in its pure state?

Answer 51

When it is at it's purest - no one but the artist has heard it - where there is no context or purpose it just simple exists right now for the artist

Question 52

What does Stravinsky mean by music is free speculation?

Answer 52

We are free to see/hear/guess/judge/understand just like the artist does

Question 53

What does Stravinsky think about inspiration?

Answer 53

Is not necessary in creating works of art - nice to have but you can create art without it as you can't rely on inspiration as you can't make it come around

Question 54

What is inspirations value?

Answer 54

It is priceless but still it comes second to hard work and dedication

Question 55

What does Stravinsky say about artists and artisans?

Answer 55

``` Artist = create the idea and sometimes the art Artisan = skilled people who create art based from the artist's ideas ```

Question 56

Give an example if artists and artisans

Answer 56

``` Artist = a composer of music Artisan = playing the music ```

Question 57

What do you think Stravinsky means by that we have duty to music?

Answer 57

Have a duty to invent and create something new not just copy what has come before

Question 58

How do people today feel about music?

Answer 58

People tend to have very few opinions about music- they either like it or hate it and often can't explain why

Question 59

What does Stravinsky mean by invention presupposes imagination but should never be confused by it?

Answer 59

Invention is to solve a problem or find a solution | This can come not by your imagination but previously learned

Question 60

What does Stravinsky mean by faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself?

Answer 60

Creating isn't one step - it is many given to us by observations and outside influences

Question 61

What does Stravinsky say about accidents?

Answer 61

Allows for new ideas to come

Question 62

What does Stravinsky mean by "the creator must refine his taste or run the relish of losing his perspicacity"?

Answer 62

Perspicacity = quality of having a ready insight into things We must be absolute about our art to maintain the vision and direction that we want it to go