Book contents
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Music Since 1900
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Deepest Questions at the Heart of Things’
- Part I From Manchester to Hoy, 1934–1970
- Part II From Hoy to Sanday, 1971–1997
- Part III Sanday, 1998–2016
- Chronology
- 54 A Roma, con amore
- 55 Mr Emmet Takes a Walk
- 56 Music to Our Ears
- 57 A Composer’s Point of View (I): On Music, Mathematics and Magic Squares
- 58 A Composer’s Point of View (II): On Parody, References and Meaning
- 59 A Composer’s Point of View (III): On Religion
- 60 A Composer’s Point of View (IV): On the Composition of ‘Light’ and ‘Serious’ Music
- 61 Symphony No. 7
- 62 The Naxos Quartets
- 63 Studying with Petrassi
- 64 Master of the Queen’s Music
- 65 Will Serious Music Become Extinct?
- 66 A Disorientating Ruckus
- 67 Bearing Witness
- 68 A Conducting Lesson with Leonard Bernstein
- 69 Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!)
- 70 Beacons of Light: In Praise of Music’s Benevolence
- 71 A Symphony for Troubled Times
- 72 In Search of Borromini
- 73 Indivisible Parameters and Spirit-Stirring Amalgams
- 74 Calling Us to Our Sleep
- Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
61 - Symphony No. 7
from Part III - Sanday, 1998–2016
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2017
Book contents
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Music Since 1900
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Deepest Questions at the Heart of Things’
- Part I From Manchester to Hoy, 1934–1970
- Part II From Hoy to Sanday, 1971–1997
- Part III Sanday, 1998–2016
- Chronology
- 54 A Roma, con amore
- 55 Mr Emmet Takes a Walk
- 56 Music to Our Ears
- 57 A Composer’s Point of View (I): On Music, Mathematics and Magic Squares
- 58 A Composer’s Point of View (II): On Parody, References and Meaning
- 59 A Composer’s Point of View (III): On Religion
- 60 A Composer’s Point of View (IV): On the Composition of ‘Light’ and ‘Serious’ Music
- 61 Symphony No. 7
- 62 The Naxos Quartets
- 63 Studying with Petrassi
- 64 Master of the Queen’s Music
- 65 Will Serious Music Become Extinct?
- 66 A Disorientating Ruckus
- 67 Bearing Witness
- 68 A Conducting Lesson with Leonard Bernstein
- 69 Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!)
- 70 Beacons of Light: In Praise of Music’s Benevolence
- 71 A Symphony for Troubled Times
- 72 In Search of Borromini
- 73 Indivisible Parameters and Spirit-Stirring Amalgams
- 74 Calling Us to Our Sleep
- Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
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- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings , pp. 234 - 235Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017