Title: Tippett on music /
Authors: Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998.; Bowen, Meirion
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Music History and criticism
Abstract: Sir Michael Tippett was born in 1905 and thus celebrates his 90th birthday in 1995. To mark this occasion, Oxford University Press publishes Tippett on Music, a new and up-to-date compilation of his essays drawing on his two published collections Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels but also including much new material.
Contents: pt. I. The Composer in Context. 1. A Composer's Point of View. 2. Towards the Condition of Music. 3. Art and Anarchy -- pt. II. Composers Past and Present. 4. Schoenberg. 5. Stravinsky and Les Noces. 6. Purcell. 7. Britten. 8. Holst. 9. Hindemith and Ludus tonalis. 10. Shostakovich. 11. Charles Ives -- pt. III. Traditions and Texts. 12. Archetypes of Concert Music. 13. T.S. Eliot and A Child of Our Time. 14. Sketch for a Modern Oratorio. 15. The Nameless Hero: Reflections on A Child of Our Time. 16. The Midsummer Marriage. 17. The Resonance of Troy: Essays and Commentaries on King Priam. 18. Dreams of Power, Dreams of Love. 19. St Augustine and his Visions. 20. Aspects of Belief. 21. The Mask of Time -- pt. IV. The Art of Performance. 22. The Score. 23. The Stage -- pt. V. Afterwords. 24. A Composer and his Public. 25. The Composer and Pacifism. 26. The Artist's Mandate. 27. Too Many Choices. 28. 'Dreaming on Things to Come ... '.