The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage': Narratives and Speculations

ISBN-13: 9780367787820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 132 str.

Roger Savage

Opis

The Pre-History of ‘The Midsummer Marriage’ examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett’s first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.

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CONTENTS

Illustrations          
Preface and Acknowledgements          
I.   Michael Tippett and Douglas Newton to 1943                     
II.   Plotting a Masque: ‘Refashioning the Traditions’                    
III.   Collaboration on the Masque, 1943-44         
IV.   The Act II Scenario, circa February 1944        
V.    Friends’ Reactions and Progress of the Collaboration, 1944-46                                           
VI.   New Directions (Newton solus)         
VII.  Fresh Beginnings and Continuities (Tippett solus)   
VIII.  Echoes and Foreshadowings   
IX.  Afterlives   
Appendix  I.  Four poems by Douglas Newton       
II.  Newton, Bibliography to 1956         
III. Tippett, the British Library Sketchbooks      
Select Bibliography                                            
Index of Names

O autorze

Roger Savage is an Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also the author of Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas: Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage (2014).