| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Music since 1900 |
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Music since 1900.
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| Contents |
Between nationalism and the avant-garde : defining British modernism -- Post-war motifs -- Manchester avant-garde : Goehr, Davies, and Birtwistle to 1960 -- A Manchester generation in Paris, London, and Rome : Musgrave, Maw, Crosse, and Bennett -- Group portrait in the Sixties : Davies, Birtwistle, and Goehr to 1967 -- Instrumental drama : Musgrave and Birtwistle in the late Sixties -- Vernaculars : Bedford and Souster as pop musicians |
| Summary |
This book 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2015) |
| Subject |
New Music Manchester.
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| SUBJECT |
New Music Manchester fast |
| Subject |
Music -- England -- Manchester -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Composers -- England -- Manchester -- 20th century
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Music -- Great Britain -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- General.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Composers
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Music
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England -- Manchester
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316318164 |
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1316318168 |
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9781139033350 |
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1139033352 |
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9781316331545 |
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1316331547 |
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