British Musical Modernism : The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries Paperback / softback
by Philip (Duke University, North Carolina) Rupprecht
Part of the Music since 1900 series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:508 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 93 Printed music items; 7 Halftones, unspecified; 7 Halfton
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/03/2017
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- History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900
- History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
- Music
- Theory of music & musicology
- 20th century & contemporary classical music
- Rock & Pop music
- Individual composers & musicians, specific bands..
- Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2..
- Cultural studies
- Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)
- ISBN:9781316649527
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:508 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 93 Printed music items; 7 Halftones, unspecified; 7 Halfton
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/03/2017
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Category:
- History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900
- History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
- Music
- Theory of music & musicology
- 20th century & contemporary classical music
- Rock & Pop music
- Individual composers & musicians, specific bands..
- Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2..
- Cultural studies
- Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)
- ISBN:9781316649527