Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Britten and British Music
- 1 Tippett and Twentieth-Century Polarities
- 2 A Voyage Beyond Romance: The Music of Nicholas Maw
- 3 Connections and Constellations: Robin Holloway and Brian Ferneyhough
- 4 Richard Barrett, Cornelius Cardew: Resistance and Reflection
- 5 Shock Waves: The Musical Elements of James Dillon
- 6 Northern Roots: John Casken, Hugh Wood, John McCabe
- 7 Affirmative Anger: James Clarke and the Music of Abstract Expressionism
- 8 Distressed Surfaces: Morgan Hayes and Twenty-First- Century Expressionism
- 9 ‘Into the Breach’: Oliver Knussen in his Time
- 10 Rotations and Reflections: The Musical Presence of George Benjamin
- 11 Michael Finnissy’s Instrumental Music Drama
- 12 The Public and the Personal: Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies at 80
- 13 Measures of Authenticity: The Macrotonal Music of Julian Anderson
- 14 From Post-Tonal to Postmodern? Two String Quartets by Joseph Phibbs
- 15 The Adès Effect
- 16 Power, Potential: Robert Simpson, Mark Simpson
- 17 Michael Tippett and the Model Musical Citizen
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Music Examples
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Britten and British Music
- 1 Tippett and Twentieth-Century Polarities
- 2 A Voyage Beyond Romance: The Music of Nicholas Maw
- 3 Connections and Constellations: Robin Holloway and Brian Ferneyhough
- 4 Richard Barrett, Cornelius Cardew: Resistance and Reflection
- 5 Shock Waves: The Musical Elements of James Dillon
- 6 Northern Roots: John Casken, Hugh Wood, John McCabe
- 7 Affirmative Anger: James Clarke and the Music of Abstract Expressionism
- 8 Distressed Surfaces: Morgan Hayes and Twenty-First- Century Expressionism
- 9 ‘Into the Breach’: Oliver Knussen in his Time
- 10 Rotations and Reflections: The Musical Presence of George Benjamin
- 11 Michael Finnissy’s Instrumental Music Drama
- 12 The Public and the Personal: Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies at 80
- 13 Measures of Authenticity: The Macrotonal Music of Julian Anderson
- 14 From Post-Tonal to Postmodern? Two String Quartets by Joseph Phibbs
- 15 The Adès Effect
- 16 Power, Potential: Robert Simpson, Mark Simpson
- 17 Michael Tippett and the Model Musical Citizen
- Index
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- British Music after Britten , pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020