Harrison Birtwistle : man, mind, music / Jonathan Cross.

Author/creator Cross, Jonathan, 1961-
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Descriptionxiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects
Birtwistle, Harrison--Criticism and interpretation.

Contents Parados: origins, contexts, models -- Episodion I: theatres -- Episodion II: myth and ritual -- Episodion III: myth and ritual -- Stasimon: verses and refrains -- Episodion IV: a pulse sampler -- Episodion V: 'On stasis in progress': line, melody, tonality -- Exodos: futures.
Abstract Sir Harrison Birtwistle is the most original, the most challenging and the most controversial British composer of our time. His notoriously angular music is at once defiantly modernist and deeply indebted to the traditions - medieval and modern - of English music. Accessible to anyone with an interest in modern music, this book uncovers the sources of Birtwistle's art and presents a critical account of his musical, dramatic and aesthetic preoccupations through an exploration of such topics as theater, myth, ritual, pastoral, pulse and line. It places Birtwistle in a broad cultural context, examining the composers and painters who have influenced his work.
Bibliography noteChronological catalog of works: pages 265-276.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-286), discography (pages 277-280), and index.
LCCN 00020553
ISBN0801486726 (paper)

Availability

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.B605 C76 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold