Tippett on music / edited by Meirion Bowen.

Author/creator Tippett, Michael
Other author Bowen, Meirion, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Descriptionxiv, 318 pages : music ; 25 cm
Subjects
Music--History and criticism.

Contents Part I. The composer in context. A composer's point of view -- Towards the condition of music -- Art and anarchy -- Part II. Composers Past and Present. Schoenberg -- Stravinsky and Les Noces -- Purcell -- Britten -- Holst -- Hindemith and Ludus tonalis -- Shostakovich -- Charles Ives -- Part III. Traditions and Texts. Archetypes of concert music -- T.S. Eliot and A Child of Our Time -- Sketch for a modern oratorio -- The nameless hero: reflections on A Child of Our Time -- The Midsummer Marriage -- The resonance of Troy: essays and commentaries on King Priam -- Dreams of power, dreams of love -- St Augustine and his visions -- Aspects of belief -- The Mask of Time -- Part IV. The Art of Performance. The Score -- The Stage -- Part V. Afterwords. A composer and his public -- The composer and pacifism -- The artist's mandate -- Too many choices -- Dreaming on things to come.
Abstract The author was born in 1905 and thus celebrated his 90th birthday in 1995. To mark this occasion, Oxford University Press published this book, a new and up-to-date compilation of his essays drawing on his two published collections Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels but also including much new material. Aesthetics, the role of the artist in society, music by other twentieth-century composers, and above all the author's own works are the subjects treated in this book. A whole section is devoted to questions of interpretation and performance, and should be especially useful to performers, conductors, and opera directors. This book distils the intellectual opinions and artistic experience of an internationally celebrated composer, one whose life-span has stretched through almost the whole of the twentieth century, and whose compositional output has remained consistent and challenging, right into his late eighties. The book ends with a glimpse of what the author thinks composers could achieve in the next millennium.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 94034148
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