The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett

Modern Times and Metaphysics

By:

David Clarke

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Music in the Twentieth Century

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Tippett is often cast as a composer with a strong visionary streak, but what does that mean for a twentieth-century artist? In this multi-faceted study, David Clarke explores Tippett's complex creative imagination - its dialogue between a romantic's aspirations to the ideal and absolute, and a modernist's sceptical realism. He shows how the musical formations of works such as The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam, and The Vision of Saint Augustine resonate with the aesthetic and theoretical ideas of key figures in modern Western culture - some known to have been influential to the composer (such as Jung, Wagner and Yeats), others not usually associated with him (such as Kant, Nietzsche and Adorno). Analyses of late works such as the Triple Concerto and Byzantium also speculate on Tippett's sexuality as a (literally) critical element in his creative and political consciousness.

Author Biography:

David Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and is one of the leading commentators on the music of Tippett.

Release date NZ

November 2nd, 2006

Author

David Clarke

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

43 Printed music items; 2 Tables, unspecified

Pages

356

Series

Music in the Twentieth Century

Dimensions

170x245x20

ISBN-13

9780521028844

Product ID

2450668

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