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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      04 February 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511481994
      9780521592055
      9780521026833
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481994
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 250 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.384kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Composer Studies
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Composer Studies
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    Michael Tippett (1905–98) was one of the major figures of British music in this century. This volume of essays provides the first substantial writing on the composer for over a decade and includes the work of established scholars as well as several new voices. Essays encompass a range of genres and style periods, but a number of recurring themes may be detected. Broadly speaking, the book moves between technical discussion focused on individual works and wider questions of context - the 'external' factors that shaped the composer's musical production such as his relationship to the past, his fascination with ancient Greece and his pursuit of the transcendent. What emerges from this book is a rich portrait of a composer whose work reflects the century's triumphs and tragedies with particular intensity and who, at the end of his composing career, was increasingly acknowledged by younger composers as a major influence and example.

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    ‘… a useful showcase of current Tippett scholarship … a significant gesture to the future.’

    Source: Tempo

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