The Music of David Lumsdaine: Kelly Ground to Cambewarra

ISBN-13: 9781138261433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 246 str.

Michael Hooper

Opis

Australian by birth but a long-time resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.1931) is central to both Australian and British modernism. By analysing a series of Lumsdaine's compositions, focusing on works written between 1966 and 1980, Hooper places Lumsdaine's music in the context of Australian and British avant-gardes, and reveals its elegance, lyricism and technical virtuosity.

Recenzje

... the book is constantly illuminating and a lasting contribution to the literature on a composer of fine integrity and sensibility... an important and noteworthy publication.' Tempo 'For me [chapter 3] is the most satisfying of the book as it problematises the continuum of the determinate [...] and indeterminate [...] compositional practice... Hooper is at his best when he is grappling with a work he admits he is not aesthetically comfortable with.' Music Forum

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; David Lumsdaine's Kelly Ground; 'I would love to know how it all goes together' or 'free as a bird': improvisatory flights, indeterminacy, and two works by David Lumsdaine; Labyrinths and journeys; Hagoromo - the melody of a bell | the harmony of a flute; David Lumsdaine, modernism and Bach: Ruhe sanfte, sanfte ruh' and Mandala 3; Reconfigurations in the fracture of Lumsdaine's Cambewarra: re-experiencing a territory; Postscript; Bibliography; Discography; Index.

O autorze

Australian musicologist Michael Hooper was born in Sydney and studied performance at the University of Sydney (BMus Honours, MMus). His PhD, on the music of David Lumsdaine, is from the University of York. From 2008 he was based in London, where he was a Research fellow and Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music. Hooper is currently an ARC-funded Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales.