Isbn: 9781316649527 - british musical modernism: the manchester group and their contemporaries (music since 1900) (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. 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. Series: Music Since 1900. Num Pages: 508 pages, 13 b/w illus. 93 music examples. BIC Classification: ACV; ACX; AVA; AVGC6; AVGP; AVH; HBLW3; JFC; MQTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 26. . . 2017. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 492 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…