Tippett
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Music Handbooks
ISBN-10
0521597536
ISBN-13
9780521597531
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 28th, 1999
Print length
124 Pages
Weight
172 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.20 x 0.80 cms
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This guide to Tippett's wartime oratorio A Child of our Time discusses the significant musical and literary features of this remarkable work within its historical, social and stylistic context.
Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of 'man's inhumanity to man'. It has become one of his most widely known works and one which is seen to symbolise the composer's extra-musical concerns, both political and psychological. This study places these concerns within a wider historical and cultural context while also focusing on specific aspects of Tippett's musical language. Central to this enquiry is Tippett's relationship to the work of T. S. Eliot, a relationship which is seen to condition both the text and its musical representation through Tippett's allusions to specific poetic images within the text and references to historical genres, forms and gestures within the musical dimension. Also of importance is the initial critical reception of the work, a reception which determined responses that still surround the work.
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