The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks

ISBN-13: 9781138265899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 298 str.

Victoria Rogers

Opis

Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) is an Australian composer whose full significance has only recently been appreciated. She produced over seventy finely-crafted works, including operas, ballets, concertos, instrumental chamber pieces, songs and choral works. This book traces the development of her musical language from the English pastoral style of the early works, through the neoclassicism of the middle period, to the melody-rhythm concept of the late works, at the same time locating her music within the broader context of twentieth-century art music and the problems of form, structure, content and direction that followed the breakdown of tonality at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'What sets this book apart from the other writings overall about Glanville-Hicks is a glorious focus on the actual works themselves.' Notes ''[T]he biographical narrative that Rogers employs to illuminate the connections between Glanville-Hicks' stylistic development and musical output and concurrent events in her personal and professional lives is sufficiently developed to provide a compelling and sympathetic introduction to this spirited composer's life as well as her works.' Fontes Artis Musicae 'Victoria Rogers has done us all a service in producing this first detailed discussion of the music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks, set against the background of her subject's often difficult and troubled life.' The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The early years in Melbourne; The student years: London and Paris; To New York; Towards a new musical philosophy; The new musical philosophy in practice; The Transposed Heads; From The Transposed Heads to Nausicaa; Nausicaa; From Nausicaa to Australia; List of references; List of compositions: Index.

O autorze

Dr Victoria Rogers is an Associate Professor in Musicology in the School of Music at The University of Western Australia.