Book contents
- Harrison Birtwistle Studies
- Harrison Birtwistle Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- References to Birtwistle's scores and note on music examples and pitch designations
- 1 ‘Let it drift’: Birtwistle's late-modernist music dramas
- 2 Mechanical song: Birtwistle's rhythmic imagination
- 3 BeforeThe Mask: Birtwistle's electronic music collaborations with Peter Zinovieff
- 4 Birtwistle's ‘eloquently gestural music’
- 5 ‘The life of my music’: what the sketches tell us
- 6 The sound of Raasay: Birtwistle's Hebridean experience
- 7 Birtwistle and the labyrinthine processional
- 8 On taking a walk
- 9 Gigue Machineand other gigs: Birtwistle in Europe and beyond
- 10 Of shadows and mirrors: reflections on Birtwistle in the new millennium
- Book part
- Index
1 - ‘Let it drift’: Birtwistle's late-modernist music dramas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Harrison Birtwistle Studies
- Harrison Birtwistle Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Book part
- References to Birtwistle's scores and note on music examples and pitch designations
- 1 ‘Let it drift’: Birtwistle's late-modernist music dramas
- 2 Mechanical song: Birtwistle's rhythmic imagination
- 3 BeforeThe Mask: Birtwistle's electronic music collaborations with Peter Zinovieff
- 4 Birtwistle's ‘eloquently gestural music’
- 5 ‘The life of my music’: what the sketches tell us
- 6 The sound of Raasay: Birtwistle's Hebridean experience
- 7 Birtwistle and the labyrinthine processional
- 8 On taking a walk
- 9 Gigue Machineand other gigs: Birtwistle in Europe and beyond
- 10 Of shadows and mirrors: reflections on Birtwistle in the new millennium
- Book part
- Index
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- Harrison Birtwistle Studies , pp. 1 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015