Harrison Birtwistle The Mask Of Orpheus
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Harrison Birtwistle The Mask Of Orpheus
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Author : Jonathan Cross
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Harrison Birtwistle The Mask Of Orpheus written by Jonathan Cross and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output. His subsequent stage and concert pieces demand to be evaluated in its light. Increasingly, it is also viewed as a key work in the development of opera since the Second World War, a work that pushed at the boundaries of what was possible in lyrical theatre. In its imaginative fusion of music, song, drama, myth, mime and electronics, it has become a beacon for many younger composers, and the object of wide critical attention. Jonathan Cross begins his detailed study of this 'lyric tragedy' by placing it in the wider context of the reception of the Orpheus myth. In particular, the significance of Orpheus for the twentieth century is discussed, and this provides the backdrop for an examination of Birtwistle's preoccupation with the story in a variety of works across his creative life. The sources and genesis of The Mask of Orpheus are explored. This is followed by a close reading of the work's three acts, analysing their structure and meaning, investigating the relationship between music, text and drama, drawing on Zinovieff's textual drafts and Birtwistle's compositional sketches. The book concludes by suggesting a range of contexts within which The Mask of Orpheus might be understood. Its central themes of time, memory and identity, loss, mourning and melancholy, touch a deep sensibility in late-modern society and culture. Interviews with the librettist and composer round off this important study.
Harrison Birtwistle The Mask Of Orpheus
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Author : Jonathan Cross
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Harrison Birtwistle The Mask Of Orpheus written by Jonathan Cross and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Music categories.
Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output. His subsequent stage and concert pieces demand to be evaluated in its light. Increasingly, it is also viewed as a key work in the development of opera since the Second World War, a work that pushed at the boundaries of what was possible in lyrical theatre. In its imaginative fusion of music, song, drama, myth, mime and electronics, it has become a beacon for many younger composers, and the object of wide critical attention. Jonathan Cross begins his detailed study of this 'lyric tragedy' by placing it in the wider context of the reception of the Orpheus myth. In particular, the significance of Orpheus for the twentieth century is discussed, and this provides the backdrop for an examination of Birtwistle's preoccupation with the story in a variety of works across his creative life. The sources and genesis of The Mask of Orpheus are explored. This is followed by a close reading of the work's three acts, analysing their structure and meaning, investigating the relationship between music, text and drama, drawing on Zinovieff's textual drafts and Birtwistle's compositional sketches. The book concludes by suggesting a range of contexts within which The Mask of Orpheus might be understood. Its central themes of time, memory and identity, loss, mourning and melancholy, touch a deep sensibility in late-modern society and culture. Interviews with the librettist and composer round off this important study.
The Mask Of Orpheus
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Author : Harrison Birtwistle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
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The Mask Of Orpheus
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Author : Harrison Birtwistle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Mask Of Orpheus written by Harrison Birtwistle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Operas categories.
The Mask Of Orpheus
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Author : Harrison Birtwistle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Mask Of Orpheus written by Harrison Birtwistle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Drama categories.
The Music Of Harrison Birtwistle
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Author : Robert Adlington
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-02
The Music Of Harrison Birtwistle written by Robert Adlington and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-02 with Music categories.
Harrison Birtwistle has become the most eminent and acclaimed of contemporary British composers. This book provides a comprehensive view of his large and varied output. It contains descriptions of every published work, and also of a number of withdrawn and unpublished pieces. Revealing light is often cast on the more familiar pieces by considering these lesser-known areas of Birtwistle's oeuvre. The book is structured around a number of broad themes - themes of significance to Birtwistle, but also to much other music. These include theatre, song, time and texture. This approach emphasizes the music's multifarious ways of meaning; now that even the academic world no longer takes the merits of 'difficult' contemporary music for granted, it is all the more important to assess what it represents beyond mere technical innovation. Adlington thus avoids in-depth technical analysis, focusing instead upon the music's wider cultural significance.
Harrison Birtwistle
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Author : Jonathan Cross
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-10-16
Harrison Birtwistle written by Jonathan Cross and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Love it or loathe it, few would disagree that the music of Harrison Birtwistle stands amongst the most assured, original and challenging music ever to have been produced by a British composer. While for some the uncompromisingly modernist surface of his music can be an obstacle to closer acquaintance, for others, it is Birtwistle's articulation of deep aspects of the human psyche that continues to excite and fascinate. In this book, Jonathan Cross - a leading commentator on contemporary music - aims to uncover the sources of Birtwistle's thinking, and to present a critical account of his musical, dramatic and aesthetic preoccupations through an examination of such topics as theatre, myth, ritual, pastoral, pulse and line. He offers a range of contexts within which the music can be understood so that the curious and the initiated alike may be drawn towards new and enriching experiences of the extraordinarily powerful music of Harrison Birtwistle.
The Mask Of Orpheus
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Author : Harrison Birtwistle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
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Harrison Birtwistle S Operas And Music Theatre
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Author : David Beard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-25
Harrison Birtwistle S Operas And Music Theatre written by David Beard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with Music categories.
A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's foremost living composers.
The Mask Of Orpheus
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Author : Harrison Birtwistle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Mask Of Orpheus written by Harrison Birtwistle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Operas categories.
