The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music
The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

Author: Bj Heile

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1351542400

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This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways.

The Music of Harrison Birtwistle
The Music of Harrison Birtwistle

Author: Robert Adlington

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0521027802

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Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is often cast on the more familiar pieces by considering these lesser-known areas of Birtwistle's oeuvre. The book is structured around a number of broad themes - themes of significance to Birtwistle, but also to much other music. These include theatre, song, time and texture. This approach emphasizes the music's multifarious ways of meaning; now that even the academic world no longer takes the merits of 'difficult' contemporary music for granted, it is all the more important to assess what it represents beyond mere technical innovation. Adlington thus avoids in-depth technical analysis, focusing instead upon the music's wider cultural significance.

Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle

Author: Jonathan Cross

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780801486722

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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.

Harrison Birtwistle Studies
Harrison Birtwistle Studies

Author: David Beard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1107093740

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This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.

The Penguin Companion to Classical Music
The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

Author: Paul Griffiths

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-10-07

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13: 0141909765

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This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.

A Chronicle of First Broadcast Performances of Musical Works in the United Kingdom, 1923-1996
A Chronicle of First Broadcast Performances of Musical Works in the United Kingdom, 1923-1996

Author: Alastair Mitchell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 823

ISBN-13: 1351791257

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First published in 2001, this work provides detailed information taken from the ’Programmes-as-Broadcast’ daily log of output held at the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham. Arranged in chronological order, entries are given for broadcasts of first performances of musical works in the United Kingdom, and include details of: the date of the broadcast, the composer, the title of the work, performers and conductor. In addition to its usefulness as a reference tool, the Chronicle enables us to gauge the trends in twentieth-century British musical life, and the role of the BBC in their promotion.

The Penguin Guide to Recorded Music
The Penguin Guide to Recorded Music

Author: Ivan March

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 1584

ISBN-13:

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This new completely revised edition of the Penguin Guidesurveys the major classical recordings issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which have dominated the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of their recording dates. More thorough than ever before, it indicates key recordings on CD, as well as on DVD, with their extra video dimension, and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. If you want the finest available version of any major classical work (including DVDs of opera and ballet) you will find it listed and acutely assessed in these pages. THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC OFFERS- The pick of the latest releases, as well as all key established recordings The greatest historic recordings, many in outstanding new transfers (including the very first recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) An in-depth survey of the best of the budget-priced CDs, including countless new issues A comprehensive new collection of 'Portraits' of the major artists - singers, conductors and instrumentalists