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Michael Tippett

Author : Oliver Soden
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474606040
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Michael Tippett written by Oliver Soden and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A delight to read' Philip Pullman 'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom Service A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the oratorio A Child of Our Time, five operas, and four symphonies - is among the most visionary of the twentieth century. But little has been written about his extraordinary life. In this long-awaited first biography, Oliver Soden weaves a century-spanning narrative of epic scope and penetrating insight. His achievement is to have enriched our understanding not only of Tippett but of the twentieth century. Figures such as T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, and W.H. Auden jostle in the cast list. An Edwardian world of gaslight and empire cedes to turmoil and warfare and his operas' game-changing attitudes to gay and civil rights, against a backdrop of the Cold War and the Space Race. The result is a landmark in the study of twentieth-century culture, simultaneously an astonishing feat of scholarship and a story as enthralling as in any great novel.

The Operas of Michael Tippett

Author : Michael Tippett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Operas of Michael Tippett written by Michael Tippett and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is impossible to trace any particular theme running through the operas of Michael Tippett, the librettos of his four operas are fascinating to compare. The dense allusions of The Midsummer Marriage (1955), here annotated, gave way to the classical formality of King Priam (1962); the psycho-analytical preoccupations of The Knot Garden (1970) hardly foreshadow the contemporary political commentary of The Ice Break (1977). Each work breaks new ground and provokes unexpected responses. The librettos offer unique introductions to the music. They incidentally throw a searching light on the direction of British theatre since 1945.

Those Twentieth Century Blues

Author : Michael Tippett
Publisher : Trafalgar Square
ISBN 13 : 9780712660594
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Those Twentieth Century Blues written by Michael Tippett and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1994 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Britain's greatest living composer is as idiosyncratic as the man himself, revealing his insatiable curiosity about people and places, ideas and sensations, and music of every kind. Vigorous, brave, funny, candid about his sexual and emotional life, Sir Michael has written a remarkable, memorable book.

Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet

Author : Thomas Schuttenhelm
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315437325
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Michael Tippett’s Fifth String Quartet written by Thomas Schuttenhelm and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of musical examples -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pre-conditions -- 3 Creative cycles -- 4 Transformation-notation -- 5 Archetypes -- 6 Dreamscapes -- 7 From concept to composition -- 8 First movement: compositional peregrinations -- 9 Interlude -- 10 Second movement -- Bibliography -- Index

Selected Letters of Michael Tippett

Author : Thomas Schuttenhelm
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571358152
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Letters of Michael Tippett by : Thomas Schuttenhelm

Download or read book Selected Letters of Michael Tippett written by Thomas Schuttenhelm and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, which spanned the greater part of the twentieth century (1905-1998), Sir Michael Tippett was a prolific letter-writer. He wrote to a vast number of people over the years, including family, friends and lovers, colleagues in the music world, journalists, poets, dramatists and politicians. Published to coincide with the centenary of Tippett's birth, these carefully selected letters provide us with a first hand account of the composer's private and professional experiences, revealing a uniquely personal view which until now has remained largely unknown to the public. Bearing witness to the atrocities and advancements of the twentieth century, these letters display a fiercely creative mind struggling to construct a universal artistic expression. His correspondence places the reader at the composer's side, within the historical moment, as a witness to the creative process. Writing open, uninhibited letters became common practice for Tippett, his candid tone lending itself to tackling a wide range of personal and social issues. From the bombing of his cottage in Oxted, to the ecstatic experience of artistic breakthrough that led to progress on a new composition, each new event and accomplishment is documented with clarity and urgency.

The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett

Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021979
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett written by Kenneth Gloag and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.

The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett

Author : Thomas Schuttenhelm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107000246
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett written by Thomas Schuttenhelm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Schuttenhelm's book presents an investigation into Michael Tippett's creative process and a comprehensive critical commentary on his orchestral music.

Statistical Methods for Climate Scientists

Author : Timothy DelSole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108472419
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Statistical Methods for Climate Scientists written by Timothy DelSole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to statistical methods for students in the climate sciences.

Tippett on Music

Author : Michael Tippett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198165422
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Tippett on Music written by Michael Tippett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Michael Tippett was born in 1905 and thus celebrated his 90th birthday in 1995. To mark this occasion, Oxford University Press published 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.

Dramatic Parallels in Michael Tippett's Operas

Author : Margaret Andrew Scheppach
Publisher : Mellen Poetry Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Parallels in Michael Tippett's Operas written by Margaret Andrew Scheppach and published by Mellen Poetry Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical study of the music of Michael Tippett's operas.

The Moth Snowstorm

Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370417
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book The Moth Snowstorm written by Michael McCarthy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths “would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,” is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm is unlike any other book about climate change today; combining the personal with the polemical, it is a manifesto rooted in experience, a poignant memoir of the author’s first love: nature. McCarthy traces his adoration of the natural world to when he was seven, when the discovery of butterflies and birds brought sudden joy to a boy whose mother had just been hospitalized and whose family life was deteriorating. He goes on to record in painful detail the rapid dissolution of nature’s abundance in the intervening decades, and he proposes a radical solution to our current problem: that we each recognize in ourselves the capacity to love the natural world. Arguing that neither sustainable development nor ecosystem services have provided adequate defense against pollution, habitat destruction, species degradation, and climate change, McCarthy asks us to consider nature as an intrinsic good and an emotional and spiritual resource, capable of inspiring joy, wonder, and even love. An award-winning environmental journalist, McCarthy presents a clear, well-documented picture of what he calls “the great thinning” around the world, while interweaving the story of his own early discovery of the wilderness and a childhood saved by nature. Drawing on the truths of poets, the studies of scientists, and the author’s long experience in the field, The Moth Snowstorm is part elegy, part ode, and part argument, resulting in a passionate call to action.

Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music

Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087962X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music written by Nicole V. Gagné and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade of the 19th century, modernist sensibilities reached a critical mass and emerged more frequently in music as composers began employing dissonance, polyrhythm, atonality, and densities. Conversely, many 20th-century composers eschewed modernist devices and wrote accessible works in a tonal idiom, which drew chiefly on classical, romantic, and folk models. Then the postmodern sensibility followed, with its enthusiasm for the unprecedented availability of virtually every type of music, and it engendered numerous sub-groups, including multiculturalism, minimalism, multimedia, and free improvisation. Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music focuses on modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide from 1890 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries, with more than 60 entries explaining the methods, styles, and acoustic and electronic media peculiar to new music, and over 350 entries giving essential information on the lives and work of the people who have composed and performed that music. Those entries also include pop, jazz, and rock composer/musicians whose work either overlaps the realm of classical music or else is so radical within its own field that it merits discussion in this context. This book is a must for anyone, musician or non-musician, student or professional, who seeks to research and learn more about any significant aspect of modern and contemporary classical music worldwide.

Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463797
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Three Questions for Sixty-five Composers written by Bálint András Varga and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do today's composers draw inspiration from life experiences? What has influenced recent composers? How essential is it for a composer to develop a personal style? This book reveals the spontaneous thoughts of some of the most famous composers from around the world about their own development as composers and their reactions to the outside world.

Beyond Revenge

Author : Michael McCullough
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470262153
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Revenge written by Michael McCullough and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is revenge such a pervasive and destructive problem? How can we create a future in which revenge is less common and forgiveness is more common? Psychologist Michael McCullough argues that the key to a more forgiving, less vengeful world is to understand the evolutionary forces that gave rise to these intimately human instincts and the social forces that activate them in human minds today. Drawing on exciting breakthroughs from the social and biological sciences, McCullough dispenses surprising and practical advice for making the world a more forgiving place. Michael E. McCullough (Miami, Florida), an internationally recognized expert on forgiveness and revenge, is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he directs the Laboratory for Social and Clinical Psychology.

Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music

Author : Delia da Sousa Correa
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748693130
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music written by Delia da Sousa Correa and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuriesOffers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and musicIncludes five historical sections from the Middle Ages to the present, with editorial introductions to enhance understanding of relationships between literature and music in each periodCharts and extends work in this expanding interdisciplinary field to provide an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other mediaBringing together seventy-one newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five parts, the chapters cover the Middle Ages to the present. The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of these two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture.This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.

Music and the Brain

Author : Macdonald Critchley
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 1483192792
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Brain written by Macdonald Critchley and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music is a collaborative work that discusses musical perception in the context of medical science. The book is comprised of 24 chapters that are organized into two parts. The first part of the text details the various aspects of nervous function involved in musical activity, which include neural and mechanicals aspects of singing; neurophysiological interpretation of musical ability; and ecstatic and synesthetic experiences during musical perception. The second part deals with the effects of nervous disease on musical function, such as musicogenic epilepsy, the amusias, and occupational palsies. The book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of disciplines that deal with the nervous system, such as psychology, neurology, and psychiatry.

Worldly Things

Author : Michael Kleber-Diggs
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571317635
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Worldly Things written by Michael Kleber-Diggs and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry “Sometimes,” Michael Kleber-Diggs writes in this winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, “everything reduces to circles and lines.” In these poems, Kleber-Diggs names delight in the same breath as loss. Moments suffused with love—teaching his daughter how to drive; watching his grandmother bake a cake; waking beside his beloved to ponder trumpet mechanics—couple with moments of wrenching grief—a father’s life ended by a gun; mourning children draped around their mother’s waist; Freddie Gray’s death in police custody. Even in the refuge-space of dreams, a man calls the police on his Black neighbor. But Worldly Things refuses to “offer allegiance” to this centuries-old status quo. With uncompromising candor, Kleber-Diggs documents the many ways America systemically fails those who call it home while also calling upon our collective potential for something better. “Let’s create folklore side-by-side,” he urges, asking us to aspire to a form of nurturing defined by tenderness, to a kind of community devoted to mutual prosperity. “All of us want,” after all, “our share of light, and just enough rainfall.” Sonorous and measured, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics. Additional Recognition: A New York Times Book Review "New & Noteworthy Poetry" Selection A Library Journal "Poetry Title to Watch 2021" A Chicago Review of Books "Poetry Collection to Read in 2021" A Reader's Digest "14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now" Selection A Books Are Magic "Recommended Reading" Selection An Indie Gift Guide 2021 Indie Next Selection