Michael Tippett Music and Literature Edited
by Suzamnne Robinson
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One of the great composers of the twentieth century, Michael Tippett
found inspiration for his music amongst literary works that spanned
all ages and many nations. His numerous settings of poetry; his
several large works for voice and orchestra and the five operas
that he wrote testify to his impressive command of literary history.
The texts of these works are densely allusive, self-consciously
interweaving quotations and half-quotations. The essays that make
up this volume are specially commissioned interpretations of the
relationships between music and literature that permeate and characterize
Tippete's music and his writings.
Contents: Introduction; The relation of autobiographical experience
to the created work of art, Michael Tippett;
Idealism and ideology in Tippett's writings, Edward Venn;
Kinship and commentary: Beethoven and Tippett's unpublished Quartet
in F Minor, Sean Flanagan;
From agitprop to parable: a prolegomenon to A Child of our
Time, Suzanne Robinson; Forging a relationship and
a role: Michael Tippett and the BBC, 1928-51, Lewis Foreman;
'Musical trail-blazing and general daring': Michael Tippett, Morley
College and early music, Suzanne Cole;
Transcending song: Tippett's play with genre in vocal composition,
Arnold Whittall;
The Heart's Assurance: Tippett's 'War Requiem'?, Barbara Docherty:
Homeric resonance: King Priam and the Iliad, Rowena Harrison;
The reception of British music in Germany: the case of Sir Michael
Tippett, Meinhard Saremba;
Index.
Includes 17 b&w illustrations and
32 music examples
December 2002 282 pages
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