Harrison Birtwistle
Subtitle: Man, Mind, Music
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801486722
Subjects: 20th century music; Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Music Of The 20th Century; Biography / Autobiography; Music; Composers & Musicians - General; History & Criticism - General; Birtwistle, Harrison; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: Birtwistle was born in the north of England, in the industrial Lancashire town of Accrington.
Description: "Sir Harrison Birtwistle is the most original, the most challenging and the most controversial British composer of our time. His notoriously angular music is at once defiantly modernist and deeply indebted to the traditions - medieval and modern - of English music.".

"Accessible to anyone with an interest in modern music, this book uncovers the sources of Birtwistle's art and presents a critical account of his musical, dramatic and aesthetic preoccupations through an exploration of such topics as theater, myth, ritual, pastoral, pulse and line. It places Birtwistle in a broad cultural context, examining the composers and painters who have influenced his work."--BOOK JACKET.