Tippett on Music

by Tippett, Michael; Bowen, Meirion

• ISBN13: 9780198165415
• ISBN10: 0198165412
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-04-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This major new collection combines essays and articles from Tippett's two earlier books--Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels with a substantial amount of new material to distill the opinions and experiences of one of the century's most celebrated composers. Published to coincide withthe composer's 90th birthday, the pieces focus particularly on the work of other twentieth-century composers as well as Tippett's own, from his early success A Child of Our Time, to the recent opera New Year and the orchestral piece The Rose Lake. Other essays deal with aesthetics, the role of theartist in society, and interpretation and performance, making the book of compelling interest not only to students and scholars, but to performers, conductors, and opera directors as well.

Table of Contents

The Composer in Context
A Composer's Point of View	p. 3
Towards the Condition of Music	p. 7
Art and Anarchy	p. 16
Composers Past and Present
Schoenberg	p. 25
Stravinsky and Les Noces	p. 47
Purcell	p. 57
Britten	p. 66
Holst	p. 73
Hindemith and Ludus tonalis	p. 76
Shostakovich	p. 79
Charles Ives	p. 83
Traditions and Texts
Archetypes of Concert Music	p. 89
T. S. Eliot and A Child of Our Time	p. 109
Sketch for a Modern Oratorio	p. 117
The Nameless Hero: Reflections on A Child of Our Time	p. 178
The Midsummer Marriage	p. 185
The Resonance of Troy: Essays and Commentaries on King Priam	p. 209
Dreams of Power, Dreams of Love	p. 220
St Augustine and his Visions	p. 228
Aspects of Belief	p. 237
The Mask of Time	p. 245
The Art of Performance
The Score	p. 259
The Stage	p. 269
Afterwords
A Composer and his Public	p. 277
The Composer and Pacificism	p. 282
The Artist's Mandate	p. 287
Too Many Choices	p. 294
'Dreaming on Things to Come...'	p. 307
Appendix	p. 310
Index	p. 313
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