Research Catalog

Title

British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries / Philip Rupprecht.

Author

Rupprecht, Philip Ernst

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

xiv, 492 pages : illustrations, music; 26 cm.

Summary

This book explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British art music in the post-war period. Responding to radical avant-garde developments in post-war Europe, the Manchester Group composers - Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Harrison Birtwistle - and their contemporaries assimilated the serial-structuralist preoccupations of mid-century internationalism to an art grounded in resurgent local traditions. In close readings of some thirty-five scores, Philip Rupprecht traces a modernism suffused with the formal elegance of the 1950s, the exuberant theatricality of the 1960s, and - in the works of David Bedford and Tim Souster - the pop, minimalist, and live-electronic directions of the early 1970s. Setting music-analytic insights against a broader social-historical backdrop, Rupprecht traces a British musical modernism that was at once a collective artistic endeavor, and a sounding myth of national identity.

Series Statement

Music since 1900

Uniform Title

Music since 1900.

Subject

• New Music Manchester
• Music > England > Manchester > 20th century > History and criticism
• Composers > England > Manchester > 20th century
• Music > Great Britain > 20th century > History and criticism
• MUSIC / General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-479) and index.

Contents

Between nationalism and the avant-garde: defining British modernism -- Post-war motifs -- Manchester avant-garde: Goehr, Davies, and Birtwistle to 1960 -- A Manchester generation in Paris, London, and Rome: Musgrave, Maw, Crosse, and Bennett -- Group portrait in the Sixties: Davies, Birtwistle, and Goehr to 1967 -- Instrumental drama: Musgrave and Birtwistle in the late Sixties -- Vernaculars: Bedford and Souster as pop musicians.

Call Number

JMF 15-49

ISBN

• 9780521844482 (hardback)
• 0521844487 (hardback)

LCCN

2014043403

OCLC

897946248

Author

Rupprecht, Philip Ernst, author.

Title

British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries / Philip Rupprecht.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Music since 1900

Music since 1900.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-479) and index.

Research Call Number

JMF 15-49