British Musical Modernism: The Manchester Group and their Contemporaries (Music since 1900)
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781316649527
$37.79
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.
- | Author: Philip Rupprecht
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 23, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 508 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Music
- | ISBN-10: 1316649520
- | ISBN-13: 9781316649527
- Author:
- Philip Rupprecht
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Mar 23, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 508 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Music
- ISBN-10:
- 1316649520
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316649527