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Tippett: A Child of Our Time

by Kenneth Gloag

  • Hardback
  • 122 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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Uncovers deep themes of inhumanity in Tippett's work

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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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  • Author

    Kenneth Gloag

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    October 1999

  • Weight

    250g

  • Page Count

    122

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521592284

  • ISBN-10

    0521592283

  • Eden Code

    4575270

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