Tippett on MusicThis major new collection combines essays and articles from Tippett's two earlier books--Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels with a substantial amount of new material to distill the opinions and experiences of one of the century's most celebrated composers. Published to coincide with the composer's 90th birthday, the pieces focus particularly on the work of other twentieth-century composers as well as Tippett's own, from his early success A Child of Our Time, to the recent opera New Year and the orchestral piece The Rose Lake. Other essays deal with aesthetics, the role of the artist in society, and interpretation and performance, making the book of compelling interest not only to students and scholars, but to performers, conductors, and opera directors as well. |
Contents
Art and Anarchy | 16 |
Schoenberg | 25 |
Stravinsky and Les Noces | 51 |
Purcell | 67 |
Holst | 73 |
10 | 79 |
Archetypes of Concert Music | 89 |
13 | 109 |
18 | 220 |
19 | 228 |
The Score | 261 |
The Stage | 269 |
A Composer and his Public | 277 |
The Composer and Pacificism | 282 |
Dreaming on Things to Come | 307 |
Essays and Commentaries | 209 |
Common terms and phrases
angels appear aria bass become Beethoven begin Britten Chapter chorus Christian composer Concerto creative artist dance death divine drama dream E. T. A. Hoffmann element Eliot English eternal Euripides example experience expression fact feel Freud fugue Greek ground bass Hecuba Hippolytus historical archetype human images imaginative instruments Jung kind King Priam Knot Garden live London lyrical metaphor Michael Tippett Midsummer Marriage mind modern Moses and Aaron movement nature neo-romanticism never Noces opera oratorio orchestra passion performance perhaps Peter Pears Phèdre piano piece play poem poetry polyphony present problem Purcell Purcell's Racine scene Schoenberg score seems sense Shostakovich singing social society solo soloists Solomon Volkov song soul sound speak spiritual stage story Stravinsky string style Symphony T. S. Eliot techniques theatre theatrical things tion tradition transcendent verse vision vocal voice words wrote Yeats