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Composing in words: William Alwyn on his art. 9780907689713

Composing in words: William Alwyn on his art

Toccata Press. 2009

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  • EAN: 9780907689713
  • ISBN: 978-0-907689-71-3
  • Editorial: Toccata Press
  • Fecha de edición: 2009
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné con sobrecubierta
  • Dimensiones: 16x24
  • Idioma: Inglés
  • Nº páginas: 368

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The English composer William Alwyn was not only one of the most versatile creative figures of his age, writing music for the concert hall, recital room, operatic stage and film screen; he was also a virtuoso instrumentalist and conductor, the teacher of some of the most important composers of the succeeding generation, and the founder of a number of influential music committees such as the Composers' Guild of Great Britain. Alwyn was a gifted writer, too, alive to literature and art - especially pre-Raphaelite painting, on which he was an authority - as well as to music, and Composing in Words presents his most important writings: the autobiographical essay Winged Chariot; the diary, Ariel to Miranda, in which he chronicled the composition of his Third Symphony; an extract from Early Closing, Alwyn's reminiscences of his Northampton childhood; and essays on film music, and on other composers, among them Elgar, Bax and Puccini.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction (Andrew Palmer)
1. Winged Chariot: An Essay in autobiography
2. Early closing: An autobiography of childhood
3. Ariel to Miranda: A journal
4. Meet the composer
5. The musical opinions of Doctor Grotch
6. Film music: Sound or silence?
7. The background to Miss Julie
8. Elgar as a conductor
9. The music of Arnold Bax
10. The golden girl and the swallow: A new assessment of Puccini
11. My debt to czech music
Appendix: The William Alwyn Foundation
Index of Alwyn's Works
General Index



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