The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies

The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies
Title The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Jones
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 384
Release 2020
Genre Composers
ISBN 1783274832

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Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) was one of the leading international composers of the post-war period as well as one of the most productive. This book provides a global view of his music, integrating a number of resonant themes in the composer's work while covering a representative cross-section of his vast output - his work list encompasses nearly 550 compositions in every established genre. Each chapter focuses on specific major works and offers general discussion of other selected works connected to the main themes. These themes include compositional technique and process; genre; form and architecture; tonality and texture; allusion, quotation and musical critique; and place and landscape. Throughout, the book contends that Davies's works are not created in a vacuum but are intimately connected to, and are a reflection of, 'the past'. This deep engagement occurs on a number of levels, fluctuating and interacting with the composer's own predominantly modernist idiom and evoking a chain of historical resonances. Making sustained reference to Davies's own words, articles and programme notes as well as privileged access to primary source material from his estate, the book illuminates the composer's practices and approaches while shaping a discourse around his music. NICHOLAS JONES is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Cardiff University. RICHARD MCGREGOR is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cumbria and part-time Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Becoming an Orchestral Musician

Becoming an Orchestral Musician
Title Becoming an Orchestral Musician PDF eBook
Author Richard Davis
Publisher Giles de La Mare
Pages 252
Release 2004
Genre Education
ISBN

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A guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician during their career.

Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings

Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
Title Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings PDF eBook
Author Peter Maxwell Davies
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 349
Release 2018
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1107157994

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A varied and wide-ranging collection in which the celebrated post-war composer Peter Maxwell Davies presents his work and his opinions.

The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise
Title The Rest Is Noise PDF eBook
Author Alex Ross
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 706
Release 2007-10-16
Genre Music
ISBN 1429932880

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Mara, Marietta

Mara, Marietta
Title Mara, Marietta PDF eBook
Author Richard Jonathan
Publisher Richard Jonathan
Pages 660
Release 2017-04-24
Genre Fiction
ISBN 2955975109

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Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers

Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers
Title Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers PDF eBook
Author Bálint András Varga
Publisher University Rochester Press
Pages 356
Release 2011
Genre Music
ISBN 1580463797

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Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences? What has influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style? This book reveals the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world.

British Musical Modernism

British Musical Modernism
Title British Musical Modernism PDF eBook
Author Philip Ernst Rupprecht
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 507
Release 2015-07-09
Genre Art
ISBN 0521844487

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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.