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Sing, Ariel : essays and thoughts for Alexander Goehr's seventieth birthday / edited by Alison Latham.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.G563 S56 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Latham, Alison.
Donohoe, Peter, performer.
Goehr, Alexander, 1932-2024.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Goehr, Alexander, 1932-2024--Criticism and interpretation.
Goehr, Alexander.
Goehr, Alexander, 1932-.
Piano music.
Criticism and interpretation.
Genre:
Piano music.
Festschriften.
Physical Description:
xxii, 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm + 1 CD (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Place of Publication:
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
Contents:
Sphere-Born Harmonious Sisters: Reconciling voice and verse in Sing, Ariel / Frank Kermode 7
Sing, Ariel [the text] 11
Canonic Codes / George Benjamin 21
The Way to the New: Alexander Goehr in conversation with Julian Anderson 33
Canonic Studies and Time Pieces on the Motif FB-AG / David Drew 43
The Composer's Confidant: Goehr's early piano music / Bill Hopkins 91
Difficulties of the Right Kind: Goehr's ... in real time / Stephen Plaistow 99
More with Less / Bernard Williams 115
To Speak as it Were Through Various Voices: Tonal invention in the first movement of Schlussgesang / Silvina Milstein 119
Calling it by its Right Name: Words, poetry (and a little music) in the Analects of Confucius / Amira Katz-Goehr 141
A Not-So-Little Music: Goehr's op.16 as paradigm / Bayan Northcott 159
All the Dancers Know it and it is Valid for All Times: Goehr, Kafka and The Law of the Quadrille / Jonathan Dunsby 171
Das Gesetz der Quadrille [the text] 181
'Is There Something to Understand?': The question of meaning in music / Simha Arom, Jean Khalfa 183
Performance Writ Large: Desultory remarks on furnishing the abode of the retired scholar / Nicholas Cook 193
Honour Displaced / Lydia Goehr 211
Twelve-Note Roots: The fifth and sixth movements of The Death of Moses / Aaron Einbond 217
Malipiero, Monteverdi, Mussolini and Musicology / Iain Fenlon 241
Training the Rose: Reflections on the individual and the collective in new music / Geoffrey Poole 257
A Rhythmical Language of Thrust and Repose: Goehr's Suite op.11 / Anthony Gilbert 267
JSB: A Prologue, Three Stories and an Epilogue / Michael Wolpe 283
An Island Formation in Schoenberg's Fourth String Quartet: Notes from a diary / Christopher Wintle 291
Born-Again Opera: Goehr and Behold the Sun / John Deathridge 299
Sweetly, Dangerously ... Lucidly: Aspects of Sing, Ariel / Beth Wiseman 309
The Second Life of Goehr / Paul Driver 315
On Music of Conviction ... and an enduring friendship / Hugh Wood 327.
Notes:
Festschrift for Alexander Goehr.
Includes bibliographical references (page [359]), discography (pages [355]-357), and index.
The compact disc, recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios on July 5 and 6, 1993, contains a performance by Peter Donohoe of Goehr's ... in real time.
ISBN:
0754634973
OCLC:
60400293

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