200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
"As a composer one forgets, in time, the fine detail of composition processes which produced past work... it must be left to scholars to recreate, slowly and painstakingly, earlier creative processes." Peter Maxwell Davies. In the eight essays presented here, leading scholars of the music of Peter Maxwell Davies explore some of the composer's creative processes. David Roberts, Peter Owens and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Alma redemptoris mater, David Roberts; Worldes Blis and its satellites, Peter Owens; A fox-trot to the crucifixion, Michael Burden; Structure and effect in Ave Maris Stella, Joel Lester; Peter Maxwell Davies’s recent music, and its debt to his earlier scores, John Warnaby; Compositional processes in some works of the 1980s, Richard McGregor; Max the symphonist, Richard McGregor; ’A dance of the deadly sins’: The Beltane Fire and the rites of modernism, Arnold Whittall; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Richard McGregor
’..this is a book which admirers and sometime sceptics alike will need to have.’ International Record Review '... Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies presents eight essays offering varied and fascinating consideration of the composer's oeuvre.' Music and Letters
