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Title:
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BRITISH MUSICAL MODERNISM
THE MANCHESTER GROUP AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES |
By: |
Philip Rupprecht |
Format: |
Hardback |

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ISBN 10: |
0521844487 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521844482 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
9 July, 2015 |
Series: |
Music Since 1900 |
Pages: |
504 |
Description: |
The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop. |
Synopsis: |
British Musical Modernism explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British art music in the post-war period. Responding to radical avant-garde developments in post-war Europe, the Manchester Group composers - Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Harrison Birtwistle - and their contemporaries assimilated the serial-structuralist preoccupations of mid-century internationalism to an art grounded in resurgent local traditions. In close readings of some thirty-five scores, Philip Rupprecht traces a modernism suffused with the formal elegance of the 1950s, the exuberant theatricality of the 1960s, and - in the works of David Bedford and Tim Souster - the pop, minimalist, and live-electronic directions of the early 1970s. Setting music-analytic insights against a broader social-historical backdrop, Rupprecht traces a British musical modernism that was at once a collective artistic endeavor, and a sounding myth of national identity. |
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13 b/w illus. 93 music examples |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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