British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries
Rupprecht, Philip Ernst2015
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This panoramic study of musical modernism synthesizes cultural, biographical, and analytic perspectives to provide a group portrait of the leading figures in post-war British art music. Philip Rupprecht explores the music of the Manchester Group and other composers in works spanning sixties theatricality through to seventies pop, electronic and post-minimalist music.
Main title:
British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries / Philip Rupprecht.
Author:
Rupprecht, Philip Ernst, author
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Collation:
496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
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Contents:
Introduction; 1. Between nationalism and the avant garde: defining British modernism; 2. Post-war motifs; 3. Manchester avant-garde: Goehr, Davies and Birtwistle to 1960; 4. A Manchester generation in Paris, London, and Rome: Musgrave, Maw, Crosse, and Bennett; 5. Group portrait in the sixties: Davies, Birtwistle and Goehr to 1967; 6. Instrumental drama: Musgrave and Birtwistle in the sixties; 7. Vernaculars: Bedford and Souster as pop musicians; 8. The incurably heterogeneous Tim Souster: between Elektronische Musik and pop; Epilogue.
ISBN:
9780521844482 (hbk)
Dewey class:
780.94273309045780.94273309045780.942733RUP(487)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1782947