The Music Of Harrison Birtwistle

Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571317806

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Harrison Birtwistle by Jonathan Cross Pdf

Love it or loathe it, few would disagree that the music of Harrison Birtwistle stands amongst the most assured, original and challenging music ever to have been produced by a British composer. While for some the uncompromisingly modernist surface of his music can be an obstacle to closer acquaintance, for others, it is Birtwistle's articulation of deep aspects of the human psyche that continues to excite and fascinate. In this book, Jonathan Cross - a leading commentator on contemporary music - aims to uncover the sources of Birtwistle's thinking, and to present a critical account of his musical, dramatic and aesthetic preoccupations through an examination of such topics as theatre, myth, ritual, pastoral, pulse and line. He offers a range of contexts within which the music can be understood so that the curious and the initiated alike may be drawn towards new and enriching experiences of the extraordinarily powerful music of Harrison Birtwistle.

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521027809

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The Music of Harrison Birtwistle by Robert Adlington Pdf

This book gives a comprehensive view of Harrison Birtwistle's music, considering its wider cultural significance.

Author : David Beard,Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107093744

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Harrison Birtwistle Studies by David Beard,Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones Pdf

This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide range of perspectives.

Author : Fiona Maddocks,Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571308125

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Harrison Birtwistle by Fiona Maddocks,Sir Harrison Birtwistle Pdf

'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of the Year Harrison Birtwistle is recognised worldwide as one of the greatest of living composers, behind such works of trail-blazingly modern classical music as The Shadow of Night and The Mask of Orpheus, famously staged at the English National Opera in 1986, and winner of the Grawemeyer Award. His music is both deeply original and highly personal, yet he has always been notoriously reticent about explaining either his music or himself. In this 'conversation diary', spanning six months, he talks openly to the distinguished writer and critic Fiona Maddocks (author of the acclaimed Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of her Age), offering rare insights into the challenges, uncertainties and rewards which have shaped his life and work since childhood, and which remain with him today as he enters his ninth decade. We see the composer in the privacy of his Wiltshire studio and garden, and in the public glare of the elite Salzburg and Aldeburgh Festivals. But mostly he is at his kitchen table, talking about the essential aspects of his life - family, cooking, cricket, landscape, pruning trees - and reflecting on the never easy-process of composition. What distinguishes him and his remarkable music is an ability to see the extraordinary in the everyday, giving rise to work that is both elemental and profound. For anyone concerned with the future of music this book is essential reading.

Author : Harrison Birtwistle,David Harsent
Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015077668849

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The Minotaur by Harrison Birtwistle,David Harsent Pdf

Retelling of the myth of the Cretan Minotaur, this book considers the inner world of the Minotaur himself, and suggests a dark and compelling reason for Ariadne's intense relationship with Theseus.

Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754653838

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Harrison Birtwistle by Jonathan Cross Pdf

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output. His subsequent stage and concert pieces demand to be evaluated in its light. Increasingly, it is also viewed as a key work in the development of opera since the Second World War, a work that pushed at the boundaries of what was possible in lyrical theatre. In its imaginative fusion of music, song, drama, myth, mime and electronics, it has become a beacon for many younger composers, and the object of wide critical attention. Its central themes of time, memory and identity, loss, mourning and melancholy, touch a deep sensibility in late-modern society and culture.

Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139789080

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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre by David Beard Pdf

David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study with both music analysis and cultural criticism, the book focuses on the sometimes tense but always revealing relationship between abstract musical processes and the practical demands of narrative drama, while touching on theories of parody, narrative, pastoral, film, the body and community. Each stage work is considered in terms of its own specific musico-dramatic themes, revealing how compositional scheme and dramatic conception are intertwined from the earliest stages of a project's genesis. The study draws on a substantial body of previously undocumented primary sources and goes beyond previous studies of the composer's output to include works unveiled from 2000 onwards.

Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351564120

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Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus by Jonathan Cross Pdf

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output. His subsequent stage and concert pieces demand to be evaluated in its light. Increasingly, it is also viewed as a key work in the development of opera since the Second World War, a work that pushed at the boundaries of what was possible in lyrical theatre. In its imaginative fusion of music, song, drama, myth, mime and electronics, it has become a beacon for many younger composers, and the object of wide critical attention. Jonathan Cross begins his detailed study of this 'lyric tragedy' by placing it in the wider context of the reception of the Orpheus myth. In particular, the significance of Orpheus for the twentieth century is discussed, and this provides the backdrop for an examination of Birtwistle's preoccupation with the story in a variety of works across his creative life. The sources and genesis of The Mask of Orpheus are explored. This is followed by a close reading of the work's three acts, analysing their structure and meaning, investigating the relationship between music, text and drama, drawing on Zinovieff's textual drafts and Birtwistle's compositional sketches. The book concludes by suggesting a range of contexts within which The Mask of Orpheus might be understood. Its central themes of time, memory and identity, loss, mourning and melancholy, touch a deep sensibility in late-modern society and culture. Interviews with the librettist and composer round off this important study.

Author : David Beard,Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 131632379X

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Harrison Birtwistle Studies by David Beard,Kenneth Gloag,Nicholas Jones Pdf

This collection represents current research on Birtwistle's music, reflecting the diversity of his work through a wide-range of perspectives.

Author : David Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521895347

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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre by David Beard Pdf

A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's foremost living composers.

Author : Michael Hall
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040217062

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Harrison Birtwistle in Recent Years by Michael Hall Pdf

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Author : Axel Englund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317049968

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Still Songs: Music In and Around the Poetry of Paul Celan by Axel Englund Pdf

What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain its validity after the Second World War? These are the core questions of Axel Englund's book, which is the first to address the topic of Paul Celan and music. Celan, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who has long been recognized as one of the most important poets of the German language, persistently evoked music and song in his oeuvre, from the juvenilia to the posthumous collections. Conversely, few post-war writers have inspired as large a body of contemporary music, including works by Harrison Birtwistle, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Ruzicka and many others. Through rich close readings of poems and musical compositions, Englund's book engages the artistic media in a critical dialogue about the conditions of their existence. In so doing, it reveals their intersection as a site of profound conflict, where the very possibility of musical and poetic meaning is at stake, and confrontations of aesthetic transcendentality and historical remembrance are played out in the wake of twentieth-century trauma.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:820430185

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Harrison Birtwistle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Morley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781635570250

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A Sound Mind by Paul Morley Pdf

For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music. Paul Morley made his name as a journalist covering the rock and pop of the 1970s and 1980s. But as his career progressed, he found himself drawn toward developing technologies, streaming platforms, and, increasingly, the music from the past that streaming services now made available. Suddenly able to access every piece Mozart or Bach had ever written and to curate playlists that worked with these musicians' themes across different performers, composers, and eras, he began to understand classical music in a whole new way and to believe that it was music at its most dramatic and revealing. In A Sound Mind, Morley takes readers along on his journey into the history and future of classical music. His descriptions, explanations, and guidance make this seemingly arcane genre more friendly to listeners and show the music's power, depth, and timeless beauty. In Morley's capable hands, the history of the classical genre is shown to be the history of all music, with these long-ago pieces influencing everyone from jazz greats to punk rockers and the pop musicians of today.

Author : Jonathan Cross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351564137

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Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus by Jonathan Cross Pdf

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output. His subsequent stage and concert pieces demand to be evaluated in its light. Increasingly, it is also viewed as a key work in the development of opera since the Second World War, a work that pushed at the boundaries of what was possible in lyrical theatre. In its imaginative fusion of music, song, drama, myth, mime and electronics, it has become a beacon for many younger composers, and the object of wide critical attention. Jonathan Cross begins his detailed study of this 'lyric tragedy' by placing it in the wider context of the reception of the Orpheus myth. In particular, the significance of Orpheus for the twentieth century is discussed, and this provides the backdrop for an examination of Birtwistle's preoccupation with the story in a variety of works across his creative life. The sources and genesis of The Mask of Orpheus are explored. This is followed by a close reading of the work's three acts, analysing their structure and meaning, investigating the relationship between music, text and drama, drawing on Zinovieff's textual drafts and Birtwistle's compositional sketches. The book concludes by suggesting a range of contexts within which The Mask of Orpheus might be understood. Its central themes of time, memory and identity, loss, mourning and melancholy, touch a deep sensibility in late-modern society and culture. Interviews with the librettist and composer round off this important study.