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British musical modernism :

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0521844487

(Number (ISBN

9780521844482

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British musical modernism :

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[Book]

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the Manchester Group and their contemporaries /

First Statement of Responsibility

Philip Rupprecht.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 492 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, music ;

Dimensions

26 cm.

Series Title

Music since 1900.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-479) and index.

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Between nationalism and the avant-garde : defining British modernism -- Post-war motifs -- Manchester avant-garde : Goehr, Davies, and Birtwistle to 1960 -- A Manchester generation in Paris, London, and Rome : Musgrave, Maw, Crosse, and Bennett -- Group portrait in the Sixties : Davies, Birtwistle, and Goehr to 1967 -- Instrumental drama : Musgrave and Birtwistle in the late Sixties -- Vernaculars : Bedford and Souster as pop musicians.

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This book 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.

New Music Manchester.

Composers-- England-- Manchester-- 20th century.

Music-- England-- Manchester-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Music-- Great Britain-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

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Rupprecht, Philip Ernst

Date of Transaction

20160617141457.0

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