British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries /

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 Da...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rupprecht, Philip Ernst (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Colección:Music since 1900.
Temas:
New Music Manchester.
New Music Manchester
1900-1999
Music > England > Manchester > 20th century > History and criticism.
Composers > England > Manchester > 20th century.
Music > Great Britain > 20th century > History and criticism.
Compositeurs > Angleterre > Manchester > 20e siècle.
MUSIC > General.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
Composers
Music
England > Manchester
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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