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British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries / Philip Rupprecht.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rupprecht, Philip Ernst, author.
- Series:
- Music since 1900.
- Music since 1900
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Music Manchester.
- Music--England--Manchester--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Composers--England--Manchester--20th century.
- Composers.
- Music--Great Britain--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 492 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- British Musical Modernism explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British art music in the post-war period. Responding to radical avant-garde developments in post-war Europe, the Manchester Group composers - Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Harrison Birtwistle - and their contemporaries assimilated the serial-structuralist preoccupations of mid-century internationalism to an art grounded in resurgent local traditions. In close readings of some thirty-five scores, Philip Rupprecht traces a modernism suffused with the formal elegance of the 1950s, the exuberant theatricality of the 1960s, and - in the works of David Bedford and Tim Souster - the pop, minimalist, and live-electronic directions of the early 1970s. Setting music-analytic insights against a broader social-historical backdrop, Rupprecht traces a British musical modernism that was at once a collective artistic endeavor, and a sounding myth of national identity.
- Contents:
- Between nationalism and the avant-garde : defining British modernism
- Post-war motifs
- Manchester avant-garde : Goehr, Davies, and Birtwistle to 1960
- A Manchester generation in Paris, London, and Rome : Musgrave, Maw, Crosse, and Bennett
- Group portrait in the Sixties : Davies, Birtwistle, and Goehr to 1967
- Instrumental drama : Musgrave and Birtwistle in the late Sixties
- Vernaculars : Bedford and Souster as pop musicians.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-28733-5
- 1-316-30814-6
- 1-316-32152-5
- 1-316-32820-1
- 1-316-32486-9
- 1-316-33154-7
- 1-316-31816-8
- 1-139-03335-2
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