The music of Lennox Berkeley / Peter Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Berkeley, Lennox.

Berkeley, Lennox, 1903-1989.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 222 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2003.

Summary:

Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) was one of the leading British composers of the mid-twentieth century and his music has unique qualities which will ensure its survival far beyond transient fashions. Peter Dickinson knew Berkeley for more than thirty years and this much enlarged book places the composer in the context of his extended study with Nadia Boulanger, his friendship with Britten, and the achievement of an independent voice of remarkable distinction. The new book now benefits from interviews with Lady Berkeley, Michael Berkeley, Julian Bream, Colin Horsley, Sir John Manduell, Nicholas Maw, Malcolm Williamson and the late Basil Douglas, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Norman del Mar. There are photographs, a full list of works, bibliographies and over a hundred musical examples.

Contents:

The search for a style

Growing confidence

Maturity

The piano

Voices

Religious music

Grand opera

Operas comic and biblical

New directions

Final years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0851159362

OCLC:

50868283