The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett
Creative Development and the Compositional Process
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- Author: Thomas Schuttenhelm, Central Connecticut State University
- Date Published: March 2014
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107000247
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With extracts from the composer's letters, writings, interviews, and broadcasts, and supported by evidence from his sketchbooks and manuscripts, Meaning and Identity in the Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett explores Tippett's intentions and argues that the experiences that triggered his creative impulses are integral to understanding his music. In his discussion of Tippett's creative process, Thomas Schuttenhelm attempts to recapture the circumstances under which Tippett's orchestral works were created, to document how his visionary aspirations were developed and sustained throughout the creative cycle, and to chart how conception was transmuted from idea through to performance. Analysing Tippett's orchestral works throughout his long career, from the Symphonic Movement of 1931 to his final masterpiece The Rose Lake in 1991-3, Schuttenhelm explores each work in detail to offer a comprehensive commentary on one of the most influential British composers of the twentieth century.
Read more- Proposes a new model for understanding the creative process
- Offers a comprehensive assessment of Tippett's compositional process as applied to his orchestral music, which can also be applied to his chamber music and operas
- Uncovers new evidence and examines in close detail all primary source material in association with Tippett's orchestral music, extending and supporting existing scholarship and promoting further study
Reviews & endorsements
"… Schuttenhelm's reach and narrative is of interest … the chapters on The Rose Lake and other understudied works make the book a worthwhile purchase for the specialist reader …"
Oliver Soden, CerclesCustomer reviews
17th Oct 2024 by UName-185703
The author and Cambridge University Press are grateful to The British Library, The Will Trustees of the Michael Tippett Estate and the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation for their kind permission to quote from the letters and unpublished works of Michael Tippett, and to Michael Tippetts lifelong publishers, Schott Music Ltd, for their kind permission to quote numerous passages from his published scores. A full catalogue of the complete works of Michael Tippett may be found at schott-music.com.
Review was not posted due to profanity
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- Date Published: March 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107000247
- length: 338 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 180 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.84kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus. 51 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Symphonic Movement (1930) and the Symphony in B-Flat (1933–4)
2. Concerto for Double String Orchestra (1938–9)
3. Fantasia on a Theme of Handel (1939–41)
4. Symphony No. 1 (1944–5)
5. Little Music (1946)
6. Suite in D (1948)
7. Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (1953)
8. Divertimento on 'Sellinger's Round' (1953–4)
9. Piano Concerto (1953–4)
10. Symphony No. 2 (1956–7)
11. Praeludium for Brass, Bells and Percussion (1962)
12. Concerto for Orchestra (1962–3)
13. Symphony No. 3 (1970–2)
14. Symphony No. 4 (1976–7)
15. Triple Concerto (1978–9)
16. The Rose Lake (1991–3).
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