Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107093740
This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.
Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316300390
This collection of essays celebrates the work of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, one of the key figures in European contemporary music. Representing current research on Birtwistle's music, this book reflects the diversity of his work in terms of periods, genres, forms, techniques and related issues through a wide range of critical, theoretical and analytical interpretations and perspectives. Written by a team of international scholars, all of whom bring a deep research-based knowledge and insight to their chosen study, this collection extends the scholarly understanding of Birtwistle through new engagements with the man and the music. The contributors provide detailed studies of Birtwistle's engagement with electronic music in the 1960s and 1970s, and develop theoretical explanations of his fascination with pulse, rhythm and time. They also explore in detail Birtwistle's interest in poetry, instrumental drama, gesture, procession and landscape, and consider the compositional processes that underpin these issues.
Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521895340
A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's foremost living composers.
Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801486722
Sir Harrison Birtwistle is the most original, the most challenging, and the most controversial British composer of our time. His notoriously angular music is at once defiantly modernist and deeply indebted to the traditions, medieval and modern, of English music. Birtwistle composes for ensembles of every size and shape but is perhaps best known for his music for the opera stage. His opera Gawain, possibly his most famous work, is fully characteristic in its marriage of a modernist musical language and a mythic subject. Accessible to anyone with an interest in modern music, this book uncovers the sources of Birtwistle's art and presents a critical account of his musical, dramatic, and aesthetic preoccupations through an exploration of such topics as theater, myth, ritual, pastoral, pulse, and line. It places Birtwistle in a broad cultural context, examining the composers and painters who have influenced his work.
Author : David Beard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2015
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 9781316323793
This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide-range of perspectives.
Author : Andrea Bubenik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429887760
This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual culture, as well as philosophy and the history of ideas. Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melencolia I (1514)—the first visual representation of artistic melancholy—this volume brings together contributions by scholars from a variety of disciplines. Topics include: Melencolia I and its reception; how melancholia inhabits landscapes, soundscapes, figures and objects; melancholia in medical and psychological contexts; how melancholia both enables and troubles artistic creation; and Sigmund Freud’s essay "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917).
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521780094
This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.
Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107127211
This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.
Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 1580463797
Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences? What has influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style? This book reveals the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world.
Author : Edward Venn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108787266
Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. The opening chapters focus on Adès's earlier music, offering close readings of key works. Further essays focus on his engagement with forms and instrumental genres. The final chapters turn to Adès's texted music and highlight how themes introduced in earlier chapters cut across Adès's entire output. Richly illustrated with musical examples and supported by further online material, this book provides a multi-faceted portrait of Adès's work that opens up new ways of thinking about, and engaging with, his music.
