1947,1970: Igor Stravinsky - Poetics of Music

Elder artists and musicians have a birds-eye view of a saeculum, and can spot sharp differences in the landscape, and deeply feel cognitive dissonances.

Stravinsky published the work originally in 1942, then again in 1947 and 1970, in a (previous) fourth, first and second turnings.

In the chapter on musical typologies, Stravinsky expresses a general aversion to modernity, with phrases such as "intellectual anarchy" and "infernal machination".

In 1970 Stravinsky was 90 years old, and died a year later. He apparently was struggling with the rise of minimalism, and "the monolith" that may be a specific reference to the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, that is also known to the inspiration for John McCracken's slab of 1981, done in a third turning.