British music after Britten / Arnold Whittall.

Author/creator Whittall, Arnold author.
Format Electronic
PublicationWoodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2020.
Description1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations, music.
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
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SeriesAldeburgh studies in music ; volume 14
Aldeburgh studies in music ; v. 14. ^A324301
Contents Introduction: Britten and British music -- Tippett and twentieth-century polarities -- A voyage beyond romance : the music of Nicholas Maw -- Connections and constellations : Robin Holloway and Brian Ferneyhough -- Richard Barrett, Cornelius Cardew : resistance and reflection -- Shock waves : the musical elements of James Dillon -- Northern roots : John Casken, Hugh Wood, John McCabe -- Affirmative anger : James Clarke and the music of abstract expressionism -- Distressed surfaces : Morgan Hayes and twenty-first-century expressionism -- 'Into the breach' : Oliver Knussen in his time -- Rotations and reflections : the musical presence of George Benjamin -- Michael Finnissy's instrumental music drama -- The public and the personal : Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies at 80 -- Measures of authenticity : the macrotonal music of Julian Anderson -- From post-tonal to postmodern? : two string quartets by Joseph Phibbs -- The Ades effect -- Power, potential : Robert Simpson, Mark Simpson -- Michael Tippett and the modern musical citizen.
Abstract By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 21, 2020).
Issued in other formPrint version: 1783274972 9781783274970
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN178744869X (electronic book)
ISBN9781787448698 (electronic bk.)
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