| British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and Their Contemporaries Contributor(s): Rupprecht, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1316649520 ISBN-13: 9781316649527 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - History | Europe - General |
| Series: Music Since 1900 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.76 lbs) 508 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rupprecht, Philip: - Philip Rupprecht is Associate Professor of Music at Duke University, North Carolina. He has published widely on twentieth-century British music and his books include Britten's Musical Language (Cambridge, 2002) and two edited volumes, Rethinking Britten (2013) and Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice (2012). He is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, and the Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College. |