Composition, Performance, Reception: Studies in the Creative Process in Music

ISBN-13: 9781859283257 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 200 str.

Wyndham Thomas

Opis

Explores the varied roles that composers, performers, listeners, critics, and theorists play in musical culture and the interactions between them. The 11 essays, developed from presentations to the 1994 Colston Symposium at the University of Bristol, range widely in the material they discuss, but sp

Recenzje

’this book is definitely recommended...the catholic range of this volume will present much material. And if you are curious about what composers and performers say they do, then buy this book.’ Musical Times

Spis treści

Contents: Preface Jonathan Harvey; Introduction Wyndham Thomas; The Process of Composition from Detection to Confection Robert Saxton; The Composer and Opera Performance Raymond Warren; Composing, Arranging and Editing: A Historical Survey Wyndham Thomas; A Performer’s Responsibility Susan Bradshaw; Freedom of Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Music Charles Rosen; The Body in Performance Eric Clarke and Jane Davidson; Expectation and Interpretation in the Reception of New Music: A Case Study Adrian Beaumont; The Domestic Gesamtkunstwerk, or Record Sleeves and Reception Nicholas Cook; Form and Forming: From Victorian Aesthetics to the Mid-twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Bojan Bujic; Stravinsky and the Vicious Circle: Some Remarks about the Composer and the Press Stephen Walsh; Mobilising our Man: Politics and Music in Poland during the Decade after World War II Adrian Thomas; Notes; Lists of Examples and Illustrations; Contributor’s Details; Index.

O autorze

Wyndham Thomas