Peter Maxwell Davies Studies

By: Kenneth Gloag (Editor), Nicholas Jones (Editor)

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Paperback | 17 February 2011

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2009 marked the 75th birthday of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, an occasion that presented an opportunity for reflection upon, and appreciation of, a period of compositional achievement that extends from the 1950s to the present. This book forms part of that reflection through a statement of the current condition of research on Maxwell Davies's music. Detailed analytical discussions of individual works, such as the opera Taverner and the First Symphony, coexist with broader issues and perspectives, including Davies's own writings about music, his engagement with sonata form, the compositional source, problems of text, and the situating of this music within and in relation to 'modern times'. The book describes selected works from all periods of Davies's rich and diverse career, resulting in a portrait of the music that, while it may be incomplete, reveals the essence of this remarkable composer and his music.

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Preface
'A dark voice from within': Peter Maxwell Davies and modern times
The writings of a young British composer: Peter Maxwell Davies in the 1950s
Thematic drama in early Peter Maxwell Davies: from Op. 1 to the First Taverner Fantasia
Taverner: an interpretation
The ghost in the machine: sonata form in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies
Questions of form and genre in Peter Maxwell Davies's First Symphony
Peter Maxwell Davies's sources: reflections on origins, meanings and significance
Setting it in stone: the problems of an Urtext in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies
The composer-performer relationship in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington: the composer as teacher
Appendices:
Peter Maxwell Davies's articles, lectures, interviews and radio broadcasts
Source material used in the works of Peter Maxwell Davies, 1957-2006
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