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Sir Michael Tippett is widely considered to be one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century, whose music continues to be performed to critical acclaim throughout the world. Written by a team of international scholars, this Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of Tippett and his works. It discusses the contexts and concepts of modernism, tradition, politics, sexuality and creativity that shaped Tippetts music and ideas, engaging with archive materials, relevant literature and models of interpretation. Chapters explore the genres in which Tippett composed, including opera, symphony, string quartet, concerto and piano sonata, to shed new light on his major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve. Directing knowledge and expertise towards a wide readership, this book will enrich the listening experience and broaden understanding of the music of this endlessly fascinating and challenging composer.

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The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Tippett is widely considered to be one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century, and his music continues to be performed to critical acclaim throughout the world. Written by a team of international scholars, this Companion provides a wide-ranging and accessible study of Tippett and his works. It discusses the contexts and concepts of modernism, tradition, politics, sexuality and creativity that shaped Tippetts music and ideas, engaging with archive materials, relevant literature and models of interpretation. Chapters explore the genres in which Tippett composed, including opera, symphony, string quartet, concerto and piano sonata, to shed new light on his major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve. Directing knowledge and expertise towards a wide readership, this book will enrich the listening experience and broaden understanding of the music of this endlessly fascinating and challenging composer.

KENNETH GLOAG is Reader in Musicology at Cardiff University.

NICHOLAS JONES is Co-ordinating Lecturer for Humanities at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University.

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The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett
Edited by
Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones
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The Cambridge companion to Michael Tippett / edited by Kenneth Gloag, Nicholas Jones.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-107-02197-6
1. Tippett, Michael, 19051998 Criticism and interpretation. I. Gloag,
Kenneth. II. Jones, Nicholas.
ML410.T467C36 2013
780.92dc23
[B]
2012025549
ISBN 978-1-107-02197-6 Hardback
ISBN 978-1-107-60613-5 Paperback

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In memory of Ian Kemp (19312011)

Contents
Arnold Whittall
Christopher Mark
Suzanne Cole
Joanna Bullivant
Suzanne Robinson
Thomas Schuttenhelm
Iain Stannard
Edward Venn
Kenneth Gloag
Alastair Borthwick
Nicholas Jones
Kenneth Gloag
Edward Venn
Jonathan Rees
Illustrations
Tables
Contributors
Alastair Borthwick
Alastair Borthwick is Professor of Music and Head of the Department of Drama and Music at the University of Hull. His published work focuses on British music since 1900, music theory and analysis (including semiotic and cognitive approaches) and the philosophy of music (including the limitations of logic in music, intentionality and transcendence). As a composer he has been commissioned to write choral, chamber and orchestral music that has been performed in concerts and festivals in the UK and internationally.
Joanna Bullivant
Joanna Bullivant is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Music at the University of Nottingham, having previously held the post of Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, Oxford. Arising from her doctoral thesis on Musical Modernism and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s Britain, she has a range of articles and book chapters on twentieth-century British music and politics published or forthcoming. She is currently working on the first major monograph on the English communist composer Alan Bush, titled Modern Music, Alan Bush, and the Cold War: The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc , for Cambridge University Press.
Suzanne Cole
Suzanne Cole is a Lecturer in Musicology at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. Her research interests include the reception of early music in later periods, and the history of early music revivals. She is currently working on an extended study of the revival of Tudor church music in the early twentieth century, funded by the Australian Research Council. Her book Thomas Tallis and his Music in Victorian England was published in 2008.
Kenneth Gloag
Kenneth Gloag is Reader in Musicology at Cardiff University. His publications on the music of Tippett include a book on A Child of Our Time (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and a contribution to Tippett Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1999). During the Tippett centenary year (2005) he gave several conference papers and pre-concert talks on important works, including The Knot Garden , the Second Symphony and the string quartets. He is co-author of Musicology: The Key Concepts (2005), co-editor of Peter Maxwell Davies Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and author of Nicholas Maw: Odyssey (2008), and has recently published a book titled Postmodernism in Music (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is currently reviews editor of twentieth-century music .
Nicholas Jones
Nicholas Jones is Co-ordinating Lecturer for Humanities at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Lecturer in Music and Deputy Chair of the MA in Music programme at the Open University. He has a specialist interest in twentieth-century and contemporary British music and is co-editor of and contributor to Peter Maxwell Davies Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2009). He has published a number of articles on the music of Davies, William Mathias and Anthony Powers for Music & Letters , The Musical Times and Tempo . He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Tempo and is currently working on a book concerning the writings of Peter Maxwell Davies.
Christopher Mark
Christopher Mark is a Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Surrey. A co-founder of the journal twentieth-century music , of which he was Editor-in-Chief until January 2009, he is the author of Early Benjamin Britten (1995) and Roger Smalley: A Case Study of Late Twentieth-Century Composition (2012), and of numerous articles, conference papers and book chapters on Britten, Smalley, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Warlock and Tippett. He is currently completing Britten: An Extraordinary Life and working on a monograph on melancholy in twentieth-century English music.
Jonathan Rees
Jonathan Rees is the Course Co-ordinator and Head of Singing and Music at Stella Mann College of Performing Arts, Bedford. His Ph.D. thesis, completed in 2011 with the Open University, was an analytical study of Peter Maxwell Daviess Revelation and Fall . He has presented papers on Daviess works at conferences organized by the Society for Music Analysis at the Universities of Durham and Bangor, and a paper on Erwin Schulhoffs opera Flammen at an interdisciplinary symposium on the Don Juan legend at the Institute of Musical Research, London.
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