Tippett on Music
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 March 1995
- ISBN 9780198165422
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 233x155x20 mm
- Weight 482 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a collection of Sir Michael Tippett's essays and articles drawn from his two previously published collections (Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels, both long out of print), plus a selection of new material, chiefly on Tippett's more recent works. The essays, many revised and all now made available in a single edition, will be published to mark Sir Michael's 90th year, during which many celebrations and performances are planned worldwide.
MoreLong description:
Tippet on Music expands essays from Michael Tippett's two previous collections, Moving into Aquarius and Music of the Angels, to make a fresh, up-to-date compilation. It also includes a substantial amount of new material. Altough its framing chapters deal with aesthetics and the role of the artist in society, the core of the book is to do with music by other twentieth-century composers, and above all Tippett's own major works, from his early popular success, the oratorio A Child of our Time, up to the very latest, such as the opera New Year and the orchestral piece The Rose Lake. A whole section is devoted to the questions of interpretation and performance, and as such it should be particularly useful to performers, conductors and opera directors. Tippett on Music distils the intellectual opinions and artistic experience of an internationally celebrated composer, one whose life-span has stretched through almost the whole of the twentieth century, and whose compositional output has remained consistent and challenging, right into his late eighties. The book ends with a glimpse of what Tippett thinks commposers could achieve in the next millenium.
`For one of his best 90th birthday tributes Tippett has wrapped up a book for himself. Everyone wants to know what a composer of his eminence thinks of the musical world that he has experienced and the 90-year-old Tippett, as much as anybody, has accumulated a treasury of knowledge of which to draw. This compendium is not a wholly new book ... there have already been two earlier collections of essays - Moving into Aquarius (1959) and Music of the Angels (1980 - which Tippett has revised and updated; sundry other articles have been gathered from disparate sources and there is an amount of new material. In the case of some composers this might result in a discordant lack of consistency, but not with Tippett. Reading the chapters as they come, one senses a man faithful to his ideals right through his 90 years ... Academics will find a lot of their work ready packaged for them here'
Financial Times
