Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 On Receiving the First Aspen Award
- 2 ‘Music is now free for all’: Britten's Aspen Award Speech
- 3 Britten and Cardew
- 4 After the Fludde: Ambitious Music for All-comers
- 5 ‘A vigorous unbroken tradition’: British Composers and the Community since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
- 6 ‘I am because you are’
- 7 ‘A real composer coming to talk to us’
- 8 Running Away from Rock ’n’ Roll
- 9 Finding a Place in Society; Finding a Voice
- 10 A Matrix of Possibilities
- 11 ‘I was St Francis’
- 12 Reflections on Composers, Orchestras and Communities: Motivation, Music and Meaning
- 13 ‘Sounding good with other people’
- 14 ‘Making music is how you understand it’: Dartington Conversations with Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Cashian, Peter Wiegold and John Woolrich
- 15 The Composer and the Audience
- 16 The Composer in the Classroom
- 17 Unleashed: Collaboration, Connectivity and Creativity
- 18 ‘One equal music’
- 19 Only Connect
- 20 Britten’s Holy Triangle
- Postlude: ‘Britten lives here’
- Appendix: A Practice
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 On Receiving the First Aspen Award
- 2 ‘Music is now free for all’: Britten's Aspen Award Speech
- 3 Britten and Cardew
- 4 After the Fludde: Ambitious Music for All-comers
- 5 ‘A vigorous unbroken tradition’: British Composers and the Community since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
- 6 ‘I am because you are’
- 7 ‘A real composer coming to talk to us’
- 8 Running Away from Rock ’n’ Roll
- 9 Finding a Place in Society; Finding a Voice
- 10 A Matrix of Possibilities
- 11 ‘I was St Francis’
- 12 Reflections on Composers, Orchestras and Communities: Motivation, Music and Meaning
- 13 ‘Sounding good with other people’
- 14 ‘Making music is how you understand it’: Dartington Conversations with Harrison Birtwistle, Philip Cashian, Peter Wiegold and John Woolrich
- 15 The Composer and the Audience
- 16 The Composer in the Classroom
- 17 Unleashed: Collaboration, Connectivity and Creativity
- 18 ‘One equal music’
- 19 Only Connect
- 20 Britten’s Holy Triangle
- Postlude: ‘Britten lives here’
- Appendix: A Practice
- Index
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- Beyond BrittenThe Composer and the Community, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015