| Description |
xii, 209 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Poetics of music
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Poetics of music.
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| Note |
Rough circles consists in its entirety of color reproductions of 8 paintings by William Scott. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Staking out the territory. Viewpoint (1954) ; The Composer speaks (1970) ; Staking out the territory (1973) ; Teachers and pupils (1980) -- Finding your own voice. Thoughts on a modern quartet (George Rochberg's String Quartet No. 3) ; May I quote you? -- Thinking about composers. Beethoven ; Frank Bridge and The land without music ; Edward Elgar: A personal reflection ; A photograph of Brahms -- Memories and tributes. Stravinsky ; Dallapiccola ; Schoenberg 25 years on ; Hans Keller 1919-85 ; Derrick Puffett 1946-96 -- Rough Circles / illustrations by William Scott -- Concert hall essays (1973-78). Life, mortality, music and time (Birtwistle's Triumph of time) ; Falling into the public domain (Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger, Wesendonk Lieder and Siegfried Idyll) ; The honest listener (Stockhausen's Gruppen) ; A philosophical opera (Schoenberg's Moses und Aron) ; An imaginary Andalusia (Ibéria from Debussy's Images) ; Holding a perfect balance (Beethoven's Emperor Concerto) ; The roots of art in life (Brahms's First Symphony) ; Rendering the peasant soul (Stravinsky's Les noces) ; Forces from outside the West (Holst's The Planets) ; After a lost war, comedies (Schoenberg's Serenade) ; Entering the last style (Debussy's Jeux) ; Running faster than the scientist (Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter) ; A furthest point of exploration (Schoenberg's Die glückliche Hand) -- Chamber music essays (1991-93). Bariolage à la Berg (Berg's String Quartet, Op. 3) ; A very beautiful cat (Ravel's String Quartet in F) ; An inordinate amount of work (Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor) ; The early days of the waltz (Johann Strauss I and Joseph Lanner) ; A last great monument (Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht) ; 255 combinations (Mendelssohn's Octet) ; The world of the scarlet tanager (Dvořák's String Quartet in F, op. 96) -- List of Other Programme Essays -- Reviews for the Times Literary Supplement (1999-2006, except 1 (1977)). Arnold Schoenberg ; Leoš Janáček ; Gustav Mahler ; William Walton ; Hector Berlioz ; Edgard Varèse ; Gustav Mahler to Alma ; Michael Tippett ; Igor Stravinsky. |
| Subject |
Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Scott, William, 1913-1989.
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| Added Title |
Rough circles.
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| ISBN |
9780955608711 |
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0955608716 |
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