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The Music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks

Autor Victoria Rogers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 noi 2016
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) is an Australian composer whose full significance has only recently been appreciated. Born in Melbourne, Australia, she transcended the gendered expectations of her upbringing and went on to become a fine composer and a highly influential figure in the vibrant musical life of New York after the Second World War. Following early composition studies with Fritz Hart in Melbourne, Glanville-Hicks moved to London where she studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams, then to Paris where she was taught by the great pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger. Her migration to the USA in 1941 shaped the musical direction of her late works. After a brief neoclassical phase, she joined the small group of American composers who were using non-Western musics as their inspirational well-spring, including Colin McPhee, Alan Hovhaness, Lou Harrison and Paul Bowles. During this period she also forged an illustrious career as a music journalist and arts administrator, working tirelessly to promote new music and the careers of young composers. In the late 1950s she retreated to Greece to write 'the big works', most notably the operas which lie at the heart of her creative output. Her compositional career ended prematurely, and tragically, in 1967 following surgery the previous year for a life-threatening brain tumour. Against all medical expectations she went on to live for a further 24 years, returning to Australia in 1975 amidst a dawning recognition that one of the country's most significant composers had returned. Glanville-Hicks's career as a composer is impressive by any measure. She produced over 70 finely-crafted works, including operas, ballets, concertos, instrumental chamber pieces, songs and choral works. The story of her life has been told in the biographies. This book traces the development of her musical language from the English pastoral style of the early works, through the neoclassicism of the middle period, to the melody-rhythm concept of the late works, at the same time locating her music within the broader context of twentieth-century art music and the problems of form, structure, content and direction that followed the breakdown of tonality at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138265899
ISBN-10: 1138265896
Pagini: 298
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The early years in Melbourne; The student years: London and Paris; To New York; Towards a new musical philosophy; The new musical philosophy in practice; The Transposed Heads; From The Transposed Heads to Nausicaa; Nausicaa; From Nausicaa to Australia; List of references; List of compositions: Index.

Notă biografică

Dr Victoria Rogers is an Associate Professor in Musicology in the School of Music at The University of Western Australia.

Recenzii

'What sets this book apart from the other writings overall about Glanville-Hicks is a glorious focus on the actual works themselves.' Notes ''[T]he biographical narrative that Rogers employs to illuminate the connections between Glanville-Hicks' stylistic development and musical output and concurrent events in her personal and professional lives is sufficiently developed to provide a compelling and sympathetic introduction to this spirited composer's life as well as her works.' Fontes Artis Musicae 'Victoria Rogers has done us all a service in producing this first detailed discussion of the music of Peggy Glanville-Hicks, set against the background of her subject's often difficult and troubled life.' The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal

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Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) is an Australian composer whose full significance has only recently been appreciated. She produced over seventy finely-crafted works, including operas, ballets, concertos, instrumental chamber pieces, songs and choral works. This book traces the development of her musical language from the English pastoral style of the early works, through the neoclassicism of the middle period, to the melody-rhythm concept of the late works, at the same time locating her music within the broader context of twentieth-century art music and the problems of form, structure, content and direction that followed the breakdown of tonality at the beginning of the twentieth century.