Peter Maxwell Davies

Author : Peter Maxwell Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107157994
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings written by Peter Maxwell Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A varied and wide-ranging collection in which the celebrated post-war composer Peter Maxwell Davies presents his work and his opinions.

Author : Stewart R. Craggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367249359
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Maxwell Davies written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of Britain's most distinguished composers. This source book documents as much of the material on his music as is available to 2001. As Richard McGregor points out in his foreword to the volume, Stewart Craggs has made valuable advances in sorting out the origins of many unknown works and gleaning details of many private compositions. The book also supplies details of those unknown works which haven't appeared in any previous catalogues, including broadcasts of early works from the BBC Archives. With information given on first performances, manuscript locations and recordings, in addition to details of composition dates, authors/librettists, durations, commissions and dedications amongst much else, this book is a key reference source for all those interested in Peter Maxwell Davies and his music.

Author : Nicholas Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783274832
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies written by Nicholas Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) was one of the leading international composers of the post-war period as well as one of the most productive. This book provides a global view of his music, integrating a number of resonant themes in the composer's work while covering a representative cross-section of his vast output - his work list encompasses nearly 550 compositions in every established genre. Each chapter focuses on specific major works and offers general discussion of other selected works connected to the main themes. These themes include compositional technique and process; genre; form and architecture; tonality and texture; allusion, quotation and musical critique; and place and landscape. Throughout, the book contends that Davies's works are not created in a vacuum but are intimately connected to, and are a reflection of, 'the past'. This deep engagement occurs on a number of levels, fluctuating and interacting with the composer's own predominantly modernist idiom and evoking a chain of historical resonances. Making sustained reference to Davies's own words, articles and programme notes as well as privileged access to primary source material from his estate, the book illuminates the composer's practices and approaches while shaping a discourse around his music. NICHOLAS JONES is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Cardiff University. RICHARD MCGREGOR is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Cumbria and part-time Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Author : Stewart R. Craggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765027
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Maxwell Davies written by Stewart R. Craggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of Britain's most distinguished composers. This source book documents as much of the material on his music as is available to 2001. As Richard McGregor points out in his foreword to the volume, Stewart Craggs has made valuable advances in sorting out the origins of many unknown works and gleaning details of many private compositions. The book also supplies details of those unknown works which haven't appeared in any previous catalogues, including broadcasts of early works from the BBC Archives. With information given on first performances, manuscript locations and recordings, in addition to details of composition dates, authors/librettists, durations, commissions and dedications amongst much else, this book is a key reference source for all those interested in Peter Maxwell Davies and his music.

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Maxwell Davies written by Paul Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351554344
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies written by Richard McGregor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a composer one forgets, in time, the fine detail of composition processes which produced past work... it must be left to scholars to recreate, slowly and painstakingly, earlier creative processes." Peter Maxwell Davies. In the eight essays presented here, leading scholars of the music of Peter Maxwell Davies explore some of the composer's creative processes. David Roberts, Peter Owens and Richard McGregor examine Davies's employment of pitch-class sets and other models evident in his sketch material, while Joel Lester looks at the serial elements that produce structure and effect in the work Ave Maris Stella. The political, literary and musical influences evident in the 1987 opera Resurrection and in subsequent orchestral works come under scrutiny from John Warnaby. Davies's use of older dramatic forms and ritual is the focus of Michael Burden's examination of his music theatre. The composer's own descriptions of his compositional process contain distinctly modernist overtones as Arnold Whittall suggests in the concluding essay in the volume. The sustained textural multiplicity evident in much of Davies's music points to this modernism. It is a multiplicity mirrored in the variety of approaches taken by the commentators in this volume. The differing points of view on offer complement and contrast each other, allowing the reader to appreciate the different levels on which Davies's music works.

Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521182720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Maxwell Davies Studies written by Kenneth Gloag and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 marked the 75th birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, an occasion that presented an opportunity for reflection upon, and appreciation of, a period of compositional achievement that extends from the 1950s to the present. This book forms part of that reflection through a statement of the current condition of research on Maxwell Davies's music. Detailed analytical discussions of individual works, such as the opera Taverner and the First Symphony, coexist with broader issues and perspectives, including Davies's own writings about music, his engagement with sonata form, the compositional source, problems of text, and the situating of this music within and in relation to 'modern times'. The book describes selected works from all periods of Davies's rich and diverse career, resulting in a portrait of the music that, while it may be incomplete, reveals the essence of this remarkable composer and his music.

Author : Richard Davis
Publisher : Giles de La Mare
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming an Orchestral Musician written by Richard Davis and published by Giles de La Mare. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for professional musicians on how to succeed in joining an orchestra or ensemble, and how to survive as an orchestral musician during their career.

Author : Mike Seabrook
Publisher : Victor Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575056725
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Max written by Mike Seabrook and published by Victor Gollancz. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the subject's co-operation, this is a biography of the British composer, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Author : Bálint András Varga
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463797
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( 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.