Harrison Birtwistle studies / edited by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag, Nicholas Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beard, David, 1971- editor.

Gloag, Kenneth, editor.

Jones, Nicholas, 1973- editor.

Series:

Cambridge composer studies.

Cambridge composer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birtwistle, Harrison--Criticism and interpretation.

Birtwistle, Harrison.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 316 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

"Let it drift" : Birtwistle's late-modernist music dramas / Arnold Whittall

Mechanical song : Birtwistle's rhythmic imagination / Philip Rupprecht

Before The mask: Birtwistle's electronic music collaborations with Peter Zinovieff / Tom Hall

Birtwistle's "eloquently gestural music" / Kenneth Gloag

"The life of my music" : what the sketches tell us / David Beard

The sound of Raasay : Birtwistle's Hebridean experience / Nicholas Jones

Birtwistle and the labyrinthine processional / Edward Venn

On taking a walk / Aleksandra Vojéciâc

Gigue machine and other gigs : Birtwistle in Europe and beyond / Mark Delaere

Of shadows and mirrors : reflections on Birtwistle in the new millennium / Jonathan Cross

Appendix: A selected inventory of Birtwistle manuscripts acquired by the British Library in 2013 / David Beard.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-316-31041-8

1-316-32379-X

1-316-32713-2

1-316-33047-8

1-316-28977-X

1-316-33381-7

1-107-47467-1

1-316-14532-8

1-316-32043-X