Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521386685
A unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation.
Author : Oliver Soden
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1474606040
'A delight to read' Philip Pullman 'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom Service A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the oratorio A Child of Our Time, five operas, and four symphonies - is among the most visionary of the twentieth century. But little has been written about his extraordinary life. In this long-awaited first biography, Oliver Soden weaves a century-spanning narrative of epic scope and penetrating insight. His achievement is to have enriched our understanding not only of Tippett but of the twentieth century. Figures such as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, and W.H. Auden jostle in the cast list. An Edwardian world of gaslight and empire cedes to turmoil and warfare and his operas' game-changing attitudes to gay and civil rights, against a backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race. The result is a landmark in the study of twentieth-century culture, simultaneously an astonishing feat of scholarship and a story as enthralling as in any great novel.
Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107021979
This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.
Author : Thomas Schuttenhelm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107000246
Thomas Schuttenhelm's book presents an investigation into Michael Tippett's creative process and a comprehensive critical commentary on his orchestral music.
Author : Michael Tippett
Publisher : Trafalgar Square
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780712660594
The autobiography of Britain's greatest living composer is as idiosyncratic as the man himself, revealing his insatiable curiosity about people and places, ideas and sensations, and music of every kind. Vigorous, brave, funny, candid about his sexual and emotional life, Sir Michael has written a remarkable, memorable book.
Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107470331
Sir Michael Tippett is widely considered to be one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century, whose music continues to be performed to critical acclaim throughout the world. Written by a team of international scholars, this Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of Tippett and his works. It discusses the contexts and concepts of modernism, tradition, politics, sexuality and creativity that shaped Tippett's music and ideas, engaging with archive materials, relevant literature and models of interpretation. Chapters explore the genres in which Tippett composed, including opera, symphony, string quartet, concerto and piano sonata, to shed new light on his major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve. Directing knowledge and expertise towards a wide readership, this book will enrich the listening experience and broaden understanding of the music of this endlessly fascinating and challenging composer.
Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783274970
By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him.
Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780198167143
Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a major factor in the transformation during his lifetime of the structure of the art-music industry. This book, by bringing together all his published articles, unpublished speeches, drafts, and transcriptions of numerous radio interviews, explores the paradox of a reluctant yet influential cultural commentator, artist, and humanist. Whether talking about his own music, about the role of the artist in society, about music criticism, or wading into a debate on Soviet ideology at the height of the cold war, Britten always gave a performance which reinforced the notion of a private man who nonetheless saw the importance of public disclosure.
Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2003-02-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521016681
In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century.
Author : Vicki P. Stroeher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783271957
The shock of exile / Paul Kildea -- Britten, Paul Bunyan, and American-ness / Vicki P. Stroeher -- Collaborating with Corwin, CBS, and the BBC / Jenny Doctor -- An empire built on shingle / Justin Vickers -- Save me from those suffering boys / Byron Adams -- Britten's (and Pears's) Beloved / Louis Niebur -- Notes of unbelonging / Lloyd Whitesell -- Take these tokens that you may feel us near / Colleen Renihan -- Traces of Nō / Kevin Salfen -- Britten and the augmented sixth / Christopher Mark -- Quickenings of the heart / Philip Rupprecht -- Reviving Paul Bunyan / Danielle Ward-Griffin -- Striking a compromise / Thornton Miller -- From Boosey & Hawkes to Faber Music / Nicholas Clark -- The man himself / Lucy Walker -- Epilogue / Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers
