Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- References to Tippett's scores and essays
- 1 Tippett and the ‘world vision’ of modernity
- 2 The significance of the concept ‘image’ in Tippett's musical thought: a perspective from Jung
- 3 Back to Nietzsche? Transformations of the Dionysiac in The Midsummer Marriage and King Priam
- 4 Metaphysics in a cold climate: The Vision of Saint Augustine
- 5 ‘Shall we …? Affirm!’ The ironic and the sublime in The Mask of Time
- 6 The meaning of ‘lateness’: mediations of work, self and society in Tippett's Triple Concerto
- 7 The golden bird and the porcelain bowl: Byzantium and the politics of artefacts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- References to Tippett's scores and essays
- 1 Tippett and the ‘world vision’ of modernity
- 2 The significance of the concept ‘image’ in Tippett's musical thought: a perspective from Jung
- 3 Back to Nietzsche? Transformations of the Dionysiac in The Midsummer Marriage and King Priam
- 4 Metaphysics in a cold climate: The Vision of Saint Augustine
- 5 ‘Shall we …? Affirm!’ The ironic and the sublime in The Mask of Time
- 6 The meaning of ‘lateness’: mediations of work, self and society in Tippett's Triple Concerto
- 7 The golden bird and the porcelain bowl: Byzantium and the politics of artefacts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Music and Thought of Michael TippettModern Times and Metaphysics, pp. 315 - 327Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001