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Author: David Beard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-09
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1107093740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2015-04-09
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1316300390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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:
Published: 2015
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781316323793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2012-10-25
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0521895340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780801486722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-22
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1317298098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology. Drawing on critical theory with a focus on new musicology, this updated edition contains over 35 new entries including: Autobiography Music and Conflict Deconstruction Postcolonialism Disability Music after 9/11 Masculinity Gay Musicology Aesthetics Ethnicity Interpretation Subjectivity With all entries updated, and suggestions for further reading throughout, this text is an essential resource for all students of music, musicology, and wider performance related humanities disciplines.
Author: Kenneth Gloag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-06-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0521151570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is postmodernism? How does it relate to music? This introduction clarifies the concept, providing ways of interpreting postmodern music.
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-12-08
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780521780094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
