Sing, Ariel
Subtitle: essays and thoughts for Alexander Goehr's seventieth birthday
By: edited by Alison Latham ; consultant commissioning editor, Julian Anderson.
Contributors: Latham, Alison.; Anderson, Julian, 1967-; Goehr, Alexander, 1932-
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Goehr, Alexander, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Alexander Goehr is one of the most eminent British composers of our time; his large output ranges from opera to solo instrumental works and his music has been internationally acclaimed. This anthology of essays and personal tributes; by colleagues, former students and friends, not only brings Goehr's own music into sharp focus but reflects some of his wide-ranging interests and ideas. It is supplemented by a biographical profile, complete work list, bibliography, discography and CD recording."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]), discography (p. [355]-357), chronological list of works (p. [351]-353), and index.
Festschrift for Alexander Goehr.
Table of contents: title: Alexander Goehr at 70 / Robin Holloway; title: Sphere-born harmonious sisters : reconciling voice and verse in Sing, Ariel / Frank Kermode; title: Sing, Ariel (the text); title: Canonic codes / George Benjamin; title: The way to the new : Alexander Goehr in conversation with Julian Anderson; title: Canonic studies and time pieces on the motif FB-AG / David Drew; title: The composer's confidant : Goehr's early piano music / Bill Hopkins; title: Difficulties of the right kind : Goehr's; title: in real time / Stephen Plaistow; title: More with less / Bernard Williams; title: To speak as it were through various voices : tonal invention in the first movement of Schlussgesang / Silvina Milstein; title: Calling it by the right name : words, poetry (and a little music) in the Analects of Confucius / Amira Katz-Goehr; title: A not-so-little music : Goehr's op. 16 as paradigm / Bayan Northcott; title: All the dancers know it and it is valid for all times : Goehr, Kafka and the Law of the quadrille / Jonathan Dunsby; title: Das Gesetz der Quadrille (the text); title: Is there something to understand? : the question of meaning in music / Simha Arom and Jean Khalfa; title: Performance writ large : desultory remarks on furnishing the abode of the retired scholar / Nicholas Cook; title: Honour displaced / Lydia Goehr; title: Twelve-note roots : the fifth and sixth movements of The death of Moses / Aaron Einbond; title: Malipiero, Monteverdi, Mussolini and musicology / Iain Fenlon; title: Training the rose : reflections on the individual and the collective in new music / Geoffrey Poole; title: A rhythmical language of thrust and repose : Goehr's Suite op. 11 / Anthony Gilbert; title: JSB : a prologue, three stories and an epilogue / Michael Wolpe; title: An island formation in Schoenberg's fourth string quartet : notes from a diary / Christopher Wintle; title: Born-again opera : Goehr and Behold the sun / John Deathridge; title: Sweetly, dangerously; title: lucidly : aspects of Sing, Ariel / Beth Wiseman; title: The second life of Goehr / Paul Driver; title: On music of conviction; title: and an enduring friendship / Hugh Wood.