Michael Tippett
Subtitle: music and literature
By: edited by Suzanne Robinson.
Contributors: Robinson, Suzanne.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Tippett, Michael, -- 1905-1998. -- Criticism and interpretation; Music and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Relation of autobiographical experience to the created work of art -- Michael Tippett; title: Idealism and ideology in Tippett's writings -- Edward Venn; title: Kindship and commentary, Beethoven and Tippett's unpublished Quartet in F minor -- Sean Flanagan; title: From agitprop to parable, a prolegomenon to A child of our time -- Suzanne Robinson; title: Forging a relationship and a role, Michael Tippett and the BBC, 1928-51 -- Lewis Foreman; title: 'Musical trail-blazing and general daring', Michael Tippett, Morley College and early music -- Suzanne Cole; title: Transcending song, Tippett's play with genre in vocal composition -- Arnold Whittall; title: Heart's assurance, Tippett's 'War requiem'? -- Barbara Docherty; title: Homeric resonance, King Priam and the Illiad -- Rowena Harrison; title: Reception of British music in Germany, the case of Sir Michael Tippett-- Meinhard Saremba