Author : Harrison Birtwistle
Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781784545314
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (453 download)
Book Synopsis Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless by : Harrison Birtwistle
Download or read book Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless written by Harrison Birtwistle and published by Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). This characteristically ever-evolving, single (29-minute) movement bears the remarkable title Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, which is that of a book of essays by Birtwistle's friend Robert Maxwell... The composer must not be "too precisein every part", a frequent failing of the post-Schoenbergian serial music on which Birtwistle cut his teeth. But his own imaginationhas never subordinated itself to mathematics, and certainly doesn't in this turbulent, scherzo-like, brilliantly multilayered score (a melodic thread always on hand to lead us through the maze of invention)... the soloist-and-tutti relationship, Birtwistle's abiding concern, went into a dazzling new dimension.