music of Michael Nyman
Subtitle: texts, contexts and intertexts
By: Pwyll ap Siôn
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781859282106
Subjects: Nyman, Michael -- Criticism and interpretation; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index
Table of contents: title: Nyman 'on trial'; title: Man and boy : the early years; title: Texts in context; title: Mapping intertexuality in Nyman; title: Parallel universes : the Nyman-Greenaway soundtracks; title: Quotation in Nyman's Neurological opera; title: Unchained melodies : intertextuality and inter-referentiality in the string quartets; title: The author returns : music at The piano; title: Gene sequences and musical sequences : Facing Goya