The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett
Title | The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Schuttenhelm |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2014-02-06 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1107000246 |
Thomas Schuttenhelm's book presents an investigation into Michael Tippett's creative process and a comprehensive critical commentary on his orchestral music.
Tippett on Music
Title | Tippett on Music PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Tippett |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780198165422 |
Sir Michael Tippett was born in 1905 and thus celebrated his 90th birthday in 1995. To mark this occasion, Oxford University Press published Tippett on Music, a new and up-to-date compilation of his essays drawing on his two published collections Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels but also including much new material.
Michael Tippett
Title | Michael Tippett PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Soden |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | 768 |
Release | 2019-04-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1474606040 |
'A delight to read' Philip Pullman 'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom Service A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the oratorio A Child of Our Time, five operas, and four symphonies - is among the most visionary of the twentieth century. But little has been written about his extraordinary life. In this long-awaited first biography, Oliver Soden weaves a century-spanning narrative of epic scope and penetrating insight. Soden has discovered troves of unpublished letters and manuscripts, and recorded moving interviews with Tippett's friends and colleagues. He paints a portrait of a powerful intellect and infectious personality: charming, stubborn, and great fun. But he also uncovers the sorrows and secrets that Tippett stowed away beneath his cheerfulness, not least the darker reaches of some tempestuous and often tragic love affairs. Soden's achievement is to have enriched our understanding not only of Tippett but of his times. Figures such as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, and W.H. Auden jostle in the cast list. An Edwardian world of gaslight and empire cedes to turmoil and warfare; one startling revelation is the extent of Tippett's involvement in the fiery left-wing politics of the 1930s. The narrative roves from the mining villages of the north, blighted by unemployment, to a cell at Wormwood Scrubs, where Tippett was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. Later chapters uncover his operas' game-changing attitudes to gay and civil rights, against a backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race. And singing from the page comes the music, through which Soden charts an exquisitely written course, offering lucid readings of Tippett's most famous works while resuscitating forgotten masterpieces. The result is a landmark in the study of twentieth-century culture, simultaneously an astonishing feat of scholarship and a story as enthralling as in any great novel.
The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Gloag |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2013-01-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107021979 |
This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.
Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet
Title | Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Schuttenhelm |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 85 |
Release | 2017-04-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1315437325 |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of musical examples -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pre-conditions -- 3 Creative cycles -- 4 Transformation-notation -- 5 Archetypes -- 6 Dreamscapes -- 7 From concept to composition -- 8 First movement: compositional peregrinations -- 9 Interlude -- 10 Second movement -- Bibliography -- Index
Michael Tippett
Title | Michael Tippett PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Robinson |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Essays from an international group of contributors make up this volume of specially commissioned interpretations of the relationships between music and literature that permeate and characterize Tippett's music and his writings.
Michael Tippett
Title | Michael Tippett PDF eBook |
Author | Meirion Bowen |
Publisher | Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Sir Michael Tippett has been a central figure in British musical life for many decades and is now widely regarded as one of the foremost composers of the century. Meiron Bowen's new updated study offers an in-depth examination of all Tippett's major compositions. The author's 35 year association with the composer and immense experience of Tippett's music in performance result in some unique insights into his creative personality. He reveals a Blake-like visionary and an intensely human artist, sensitive to both people and to public events in a strife-torn century, but also stubbornly upholding the integrity and independence of his art.