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Accademia Filarmonica Romana, 29–30 Barbican Centre, 179, 256, 261, 296 Adelaide University, 74, 177 Barbirolli, John, 172, 182 Alberti, Leon Battista, 273 Baroque music, 245 Aldeburgh Festival, 131 Bartók, Béla, 21, 32–3, 46–7, 59 aleatoric music, 54–5, 303 Concerto for Orchestra, 86, 172 Annunzio, Gabriele d’, 206 String Quartet No. 5, 172 Antichrist, 81, 95, 103, 117 Bath Festival, 276 Aquinas, St Thomas, 6, 135, 138, 223, 229, BBC. See British Broadcasting Corporation 267, 304 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, 186, 235, 263, architecture, 4–5, 45, 72, 96, 113, 179–87, 269 212, 218, 227, 232, 293, 296–7, 299, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, 163 304 BBC Symphony Orchestra, 106, 260, 288–9, Arnold, Judy, 260 292 art, 6, 139, 218, 227, 299, 304 Beamish, Sally, 255, 261 Arts Council, 155, 157, 167–70, 261 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 19, 60, 166, 169, Ashkenazy, Vladimir, 163 173, 182, 186, 215, 234, 268, 292 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Piano Sonata in A♭ major, Op. 110, 301 Music, 72, 74 Piano Sonata in B♭ major Attlee, Clement, 271 (‘Hammerklavier’), Op. 106, 301 Auditorium del Foro Italico (Rome), 39 Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111, 302 Augustine, St, 6, 103, 267, 304 Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1, Austin, Christopher, 3 214, 300 Australian Aboriginal music, 4, 177, 279 Piano Sonata in F♯ major, Op. 78, 236 use of dijeridu, 99 Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), 302 Auvergne, William of, 284 Symphony No. 5, 102 avant-garde, 36, 62, 65, 173, 216, 219, 254 Symphony No. 9 (‘Choral’), 102 ‘Ave Maris Stella’ (plainsong Vespers Berg, Alban, 16, 33, 35, 43, 60, 184 hymn), 52 Lulu, 301 Wozzeck, 301 Babbitt, Milton, 57, 60–6, 73, 213, 302 Berger, Arthur, 57 Philomel,62 Bergman, Ingmar, 161 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 19, 46, 181, 208, Berio, Luciano, Divertimento per orchestra, 239, 251–3, 268, 292, 299 29 Brandenburg Concertos, 104 Berlin, Isaiah, 213, 230 Inventions (keyboard), 238–9, 301 Berlusconi, Silvio, 280 Two-part Invention in E minor, BMV Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 245, 296 778, 301 Bernstein, Leonard, 63, 285–6 Musical Offering, The,21 Bevan, Anne, 128 Prelude in F minor, Well-tempered Bevan, Archie, 128, 163 Clavier, Book 2, 208 Bevan, Elizabeth, 128 St Matthew Passion, 251–2, 270 Bevan, Graham, 128 Bantock, Granville, 33 Bevan, Peter, 128 [322]

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Bingen, Hildegarde von, ‘Verbum Patris, O’, Buckingham Palace, 250 243 Bull, John, 70, 93 Birtwistle, Harrison, 79, 99, 113, 186, 247, St Thomas Wake, 93, 101 277 Burney, Fanny, 98 bitonality/bimodality, 213 Bush, George W., 282 Blair, Tony, 271, 282 Busnois, Antoine, 304 Blitheman, John, 70, 223 Byrd, William, 173, 227, 231, 233 Blunt, Anthony, 244–5 Boethius, 267 Cage, John, 61–6, 255 Boosey & Hawkes, 303 Cambridge University, 282 Born, Gunthard, 222 Cameron, David, 271 Borromini, Francesco, 4, 240–5, 290, Campaign for Homosexual Equality, 141 296–8 canon, 38, 43, 70, 102, 113 Boston Pops, The, 232, 266 mensural canon, 38, 70, 81, 223, 238–9 Boulez, Pierre, 17, 21, 33, 73, 87, 105, 172, cantus ﬁrmus, 37, 51, 68 255, 304 Cardiff, 179 Pli Selon Pli, 133 Carewe, John, 39 ‘Strawinsky demeure’ (analysis of The Carinthian Summer Festival (Austria), 268 Rite of Spring), 299, 301 Carossa, Hans, 6, 305 Structures I,30 Carter, Elliott, 247, 285 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, 269 ceilidh, 176 Brahms, Johannes, 169 Celan, Paul, 223 Breughel, Pieter, Children’s Games, 221, 240 Central Band of the Royal British Legion, British Antarctic Survey, 188, 197 266 British Broadcasting Corporation, 2, 55, Chapel Royal, 267 110, 135, 280 Hampton Court Palace, 266 BBC2, 167 St James’s Palace, 266 Children’s Hour, 231 Cheltenham Music Festival, 37, 66, 104, 167, Desert Island Discs, 94, 179, 260 171, 276, 304 Promenade Concerts, 86, 255, 280 Chopin, Frédéric, 55, 61, 238 Radio 3, 278, 281 Churchill, Winston, 271 Sound Archive, 3 Cirencester Grammar School, 49, 71, 75, 89, Third Programme, 85, 227, 281 131, 151, 171, 256–7, 275, 303 British Council, 157 Classic FM, 281 British Library, 3, 50, 211 Classical music (period), 47, 51, 73, 77, 134, Sound Archive, 2 253 Britten, Benjamin, 131, 185, 215, 250, 267–8, classical music (Western art music). See 273 Davies, Peter Maxwell, on classical Ceremony of Carols,49 music War Requiem, 250, 266 Cliburn, Van, 63 Brown, George Mackay, 127, 129–30, 163–4, climate change, 270, 272 174, 229 Collins Classics, 167, 169 ‘Dead Fires’, 132 Cologne, 33, 173 An Orkney Tapestry, 127 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 167 Magnus, 129 compositional technique, 2–4, 6, 54, 71, 73, Bruckner, Anton, 91 81 Brunelleschi, Filippo, 180–1 Cone, Edward T., 73, 213, 302 Bruyne, Edgar de, 274 contrapuntal techniques, 38, 111 Bryanston Summer School of Music, 83 Cooney, John, 261 Büchner, Georg, Leonce und Lena, 221 Copland, Aaron, 59–60, 247, 285

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Cowan, James, A Mapmaker’s Dream, 226 life Craft, Robert, 57 1934–70, 11–14 Croce, Giovanni, 30 1971–97, 121–4 Cultural Revolution, 271, 287 1998–2016, 201–4 on 1920s and 30s dance music, 93 Dallapiccola, Luigi, 30 on aleatoric techniques, 219–20 Dante, 6, 135, 138, 305 on attending Hallé concerts, 172, 182 Inferno, 225 on Australian Aboriginal music, 177–8 Darmstadt International Summer Courses on classical music, 251–70, 276–9 for New Music, 172–3, 257, 303 on composing music for children, 46–9, Dartington Summer School of Music, 60, 73, 131, 232–3, 256–7, 275–6 156, 247, 278 on composing with a computer, 263 Davies, Peter Maxwell on compositional technique, 19–23, 56–8, and ‘basic unifying hypothesis’, 148 211–18 and ‘Death’ chord, 68, 225 on Darmstadt Summer Course, 172–3 and betrayal, 116 on environmental issues, 197, 229 and conducting, 248, 285–6, 288–9 on experiencing the Blitz, 94, 224, 294 and hearing disturbance, 223, 225 on first visit to Orkney, 127–30 and homosexuality, 136–43, 305 on harmony, rhythm and form, 299–304 and the influence of architecture, 185–6, on his own ‘light’ music, 231–3 240–5, 296–8 on Indian classical music, 24–8, 88, 219 and living in Orkney, 163–4, 304 ālāp,88 and magic squares, 148, 216–18 rāga,25–8, 88 and medieval gargoyles, 92 tāla,25–6, 88 and personal script, 185 on leukaemia treatment, 298 and ritual significance of bell-signals, 101 on music and mathematics, 211–18 and significance of doubling at fifth/ on music education, 20, 71–5, 151–62, octave, 223–5 256–9, 261–3, 275–6, 278–9, 281 and thematic transformation process, on musical innovation, 76–80 67–9, 82, 96, 111, 133, 215–16, 302–3 on musical meaning, 222–6 and three-note recurring figure, 134 on musical parody, 220–2 and tonality/modality, tonics and on politics, 271–2 dominants, 134, 148, 183, 213, 253, on pop music, 259 293, 300 on religion, 227–30, 266–7, 272–3, 304–5 and use of a ‘tenor’ holding part, 105, 134, on teaching composition, 33–4 224, 293, 303 on the ‘strangeness’ of new music, 34–5 as composer, 15 on the BBC Proms, 288–92 as Master of the Queen’s Music, 249–50 on the composer’sfunctioninsociety,280–4 as a student at Manchester University, 85, on the intervention in Afghanistan, 282, 116, 227, 285 294 as a student at Princeton University, on the invasion of Iraq, 238, 272, 282, 294 59–66, 70, 73, 116, 213–14, 302 on the role of the symphony orchestra, as a student in Rome, 54, 205–6, 296, 301 104–8 at Adelaide University, 74–5, 177 on the teaching of composition, 283 at Cirencester Grammar School, 46–9, 51, on the teaching of harmony, 20–1 53, 55, 71, 89, 256–7, 303–4 on the visual arts, 273–5 at Royal Academy of Music, 277, 282–3, on twentieth-century English music, 31–3 305 private journals and diaries, 2 in Italy, 29–30 sketch material, 183, 211 in the Antarctic, 188–97 studio chamber organ, 70, 90

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variation on serial technique, 37–8, 44, Lighthouse, The, 144–6, 179, 217, 224, 82, 111 231, 276, 297, 304 WORKS Little Birthday Music, A, 284 Alma Redemptoris Mater, 225 Magnum Mysterium, O,48–9, 276 Antarctic Symphony (Symphony Martyrdom of St Magnus, The, 163–4, No. 8), 4, 188–97, 234, 297 277 Antechrist,81 Mass, 250, 267 Ave Maria, Hail Blessed Flower,55 Mavis in Las Vegas, 232 Ave Maris Stella, 134, 217 Mishkenot, 171 Beltane Fire, The, 222 Missa Parvula, 250, 267 Black Pentecost, 132 Missa Super L’Homme Armé, 228 Blind Man’s Buff, 221 Monteverdi, Vespers (arrangement), Boyfriend, The, 137, 266 51, 89 Caroline Mathilde, 167, 171 Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, 208–9, 287 Cinderella, 231 Musica Benevolens, 288–92 Commemoration Sixty, 250, 266, 284 Naxos Quartet No. 1, 236–9, 246 Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra, Naxos Quartet No. 3, 238–9, 272, 282, 183 294 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 167 Naxos Quartet No. 4 – Children’s Cross Lane Fair, 232 Games, 240 Dangerous Errand, 171, 268 Naxos Quartet No. 5 – Lighthouses of Dark Angels, 132 Orkney and Shetland, 239–40 Devils, The, 127, 137, 220, 266 Naxos Quartet No. 6, 245 Doctor of Myddfai, The, 195, 287 Naxos Quartet No. 7 – Metafore sul Ecce Manus Tradentis, 102 Borromini, 240–5, 296 Eight Songs for a Mad King, 95, 98–100, Naxos Quartet No. 9, 236, 245 112, 219, 232, 249, 276, 304 Naxos Quartet No. 10, 245–6 Fantasia and Two Pavans after Henry Naxos Quartets, 4 Purcell,89–90, 221, 224 Ojai Festival Overture, 171 First Fantasia on an ‘In Nomine’ of Orkney Wedding, With Sunrise, An, John Taverner, 50, 53, 106, 242, 289 167, 232, 266 Five Acts of Harry Patch, The, 277, Parade, 15, 225, 231 282 Prolation,39–42, 54, 78, 185, 205, 213, Five Klee Pictures (original version), 48 215 Five Motets (original version), 48 Reel of Seven Fishermen, A, 205 Five Pieces for Piano, 186, 212–13 Resurrection, 142, 217, 222, 225, 228 Great Bank Robbery, The, 268 Revelation and Fall,83–4, 95, 109–15, Hogboon, The, 306 184 Hymn to St Magnus, 96, 125, 128, Roma Amor, 205–7, 248 130–1 Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s Hymnos, 171 ‘In Nomine’, 53, 55, 67–70, 77, Image, Reﬂection, Shadow, 232 106–7, 111, 181, 214–15, 217, 224, Invocation to Mercurius, 175 303 Jimmack the Postie, 167, 171 Seven In Nomine, 70, 215, 217, 223 Jongleur de Notre Dame, Le, 137 Shakespeare Music, 110 Jupiter Landing, 268 Sinfonia, 51–3, 78 Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!), 287 Six Sanday Tunes, 278 L’Homme Armé, 82, 89, 95, 102 Solstice of Light, 139 Last Door of Light, 283 Sonata for Cello and Piano – Sequentia Leopardi Fragments, 51, 53, 77–8 Serpentigena, 278

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Davies, Peter Maxwell (cont.) Vesalii Icones, 101–3, 220, 304 Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, 3, 16, Violin Concerto No. 2 – Fiddler on the 211, 264, 285 Shore, 283, 289 Songs of Sanday, 278 Violin Sonata, 277 Sorcerer’s Mirror, The, 282 Westerlings, 129 St Michael – Sonata for Seventeen Worldes Blis,95–7, 106, 169, 177, 288, Wind Instruments,37–8, 54, 205 304 St Thomas Wake, 90, 93–4, 101, 108, Debussy, Claude, 241 171, 219, 221, 232, 294, 304 Mer, La, 254 Start Point, 278 ‘Deil Stick da Minister’ (folk tune), 246 Stedman Caters (original version), 89 Demuth, Norman, 72 Stedman Caters (revised version), 89 Deo conﬁtemini–Domino (motet), 81 Stedman Doubles (original version), 88 Dickins, Bruce, 126 Stedman Doubles (revised version), Donaueschingen Music Festival, 173, 257 88–9 Donne, John, 267 Stevie’s Ferry to Hoy, 128 Dorset, 90, 128 Stone Litany, 96, 125–6, 129 Dortmund, 90, 108, 171 Strathclyde Concerto No. 1, 165 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 6 Strathclyde Concerto No. 2, 165 Dowland, John, 47, 245 Strathclyde Concerto No. 3, 217, 236 Dufallo, Richard, 3 Strathclyde Concerto No. 6, 221 Dunstable, John, 173 Strathclyde Concerto No. 9, 175 Strathclyde Concerto No. 10, 175–6, early music, 6, 22, 30, 47, 53–5, 77–80 245 Eimert, Herbert, 57 Strathclyde Concertos, 261 Elgar, Edward, 268 String Quartet, 51, 53, 55, 78 Cello Concerto, 231 String Trio, 277 Salut d’Amour, 231 Symphony No. 1, 132–5, 167, 181, 215, Elizabeth II, Queen, 266, 284, 291, 293 225, 235–6 Ellis, Catherine J., 177 Symphony No. 2, 147–9, 167, 217, 224 Aboriginal Music Making, 178 Symphony No. 3, 167, 179–87, 217, 232 English Chamber Orchestra, 66 Symphony No. 4, 165–6, 217, 236 English Musical Renaissance, 268 Symphony No. 5, 181–2 experimental music, 31 Symphony No. 6, 167, 174, 184, 205, 217, 225 Fanfare Trumpeters of the Household Symphony No. 7, 186, 234–6 Division, The, 290 Symphony No. 8. See Antarctic Fellowes, Edmund, Tudor Church Music, Symphony 116 Symphony No. 9, 3, 186, 293–5, 297 Fibonacci series, 180, 217–18, 241, 248 Symphony No. 10 – Alla ricerca di Fires of London, The, 128, 131, 141, 163, Borromini, 3, 296–8 217, 285 Taverner, 67, 81, 83, 116–17, 220–1, Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, 47, 70 225 Florence, 180 Throstle’s Nest Junction, 232 folk music, 33, 59, 163, 259, 277 Time and the Raven, 174, 177, 222 form, 36 Two Songs for Firth School, 278 rondo form, 38 Veni Sancte Spiritus (Op. 235 No. 2), sonata form, 38, 51, 133, 149, 174, 183, 248 214, 234, 237, 240, 246, 293 Veni, Sancte Spiritus (Op. 22), 66, 110 variation form, 38, 237 Verbum Patris, O, 243 Forte, Allen, 82

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foxtrot, 90, 93–4, 99, 101–2, 111, 220–1, 232 String Quartet in C major, Op. 54 No. 2, Freud, Sigmund, 6, 91 294 fugue, 38, 239 String Quartets, Op. 20, 234 Hebrides Ensemble, 277 Gabrieli, Andrea, 37, 208 Hennegan, Alison, 136–43 Edipo Tiranno, 208 Henze, Hans Werner, 30, 247 Gabrieli, Giovanni, 30 Hilbish, Thomas, 66 Galliver, David, 74 Hindemith, Paul, 172 Gardner, Edward, 292 Hirst, Damien, 274 Gardner, Jane, 261 Hitler, Adolf, 266, 277 George III, King, 95, 98, 249 hocket, 37, 78 Gerhard, Roberto, 247 Hoffmann, E.T.A., Meister Floh,67 Germany, 173 Hoffmann Report, 264 Gershwin, George, 59 Holst, Gustav, 268 Gewandhaus (Leipzig), 291 homosexuality, 6, 273 Gewandhaus Orchestra, 283 Hope, Daniel, 289 Gide, André, 6, 147, 305 Howarth, Elgar, 16, 264, 285 Gladstone, William, 271 Glanville, Ranulph, 83 Ibsen, Henrik, 161 Glasgow, 280 Incontri Musicali Glasgow City Hall, 261 festival, 29 Glock, William, 83, 135, 255 journal, 29 Goehr, Alexander, 76–80, 85, 212, 247 Indian classical music, 2, 88–9, 261, 279 Goehr, Walter, 85–6 ālāp,88 Gogh, Vincent van, 161, 166, 274 rāga,88 Gold, Ernest, 19, 21 tāla,88 Golden Section, 181 ‘In Nomine’ (instrumental form), 50, 239 Goya, Francisco, 51 International Society for Contemporary Grange, Philip, 301 Music, 39, 64 Grieg, Edvard, Lyric Pieces,47 isometre, 237 Grifﬁths, Paul, 3 isometry, 217 Groves, Charles, 6, 85, 106–7, 295 isorhythm, 37–8, 68, 78, 82, 93, 133, 215 Gulbenkian Foundation, 155 Italy choral singing tradition, 261 Hacker, Alan, 88, 171 Haider, Jörg, 268 jazz, 29, 32, 59, 219, 257, 261, 277 Hall, Richard, 247 Johnstone, Derrick, 127 Hammond, Rosemary, 276 Jones, Nicholas, 173, 179–87 Hampshire, Stuart, 213 Joyce, James, 6, 186, 223 Handel, George Frideric, 22, 33, 98–9, 268 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, Messiah,99 223 Harbison, John Harris, 64 Ulysses, 79, 82, 112, 206–7, 221, 223, 305 Harkness Fellowship, 60, 131 Julliard School, 287 harmonic rhythm, 16, 20, 43, 96 Jung, Carl, 6, 91, 228 Hart, Roy, 99 Harvard University, 232 Katz, Adele T., 58 Hassler, Hans Leo, 30 Keller, Hans, 44, 104 Hausmusik, 254 Keys, Ivor, 104 Haydn, Joseph, 46, 60, 104, 133, 187, 211, Khan, Amjad Ali, 277 234–5, 237, 245, 268, 282–3 Killy, Walther, 223

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Kim, Earl, 61, 70, 73, 213, 302 Henry Watson Music Library, 184, 227 Klangfarbenmelodie,35 Leigh Grammar School, 162, 283 Klee, Paul, 48 Manchester Cathedral, 227 Kodály, Zoltán, 59 Pendlebury, 259 Koussevitsky Foundation, 83, 110 Royal Manchester College of Music, 16, 172, 247 Landi, Stefano, 243 Royal Northern College of Music, 263 Lawley, Sue, 94, 179 Salford, 232, 262 Lazio, Italy, 293 Swinton, 259 Lehár, Franz, 84 University of Manchester, 16, 86, 88, 172, Leoncavallo, Ruggero, Pagliacci, 265 247, 263 Leopardi, Giacomo, 54, 297 Worsley, 186 Levin, Moshe, 269 Manduell, John, 171 ‘L’Homme Armé’ (Renaissance secular Mao, Zedong, 254, 277 song), 82 Marlowe, Christopher, 270 Liber Usualis, 165, 228 Martin, Jennifer, 261 Liberace Museum (Las Vegas), 274 Martirano, Salvatore, 64 Liszt, Franz, 254 Mascagni, Pietro, Cavalleria rusticana, 265 literature, 304–5 Master of the Queen’s Music, 5, 265, 284, Lloyd George, David, 271 294 London, 141–2, 167, 169, 255, 260, 276, 303 MaxOpus (Davies’s website), 4, 260 London Mozart Players, 277, 282 McCartney, Paul, 279 London Philharmonic Orchestra, 55, 67, 70, McDonald, Gerald, 104–5 77 McDowell, Kathryn, 261 London Sinfonietta, 155, 261 McGregor, Richard, 185 London Symphony Chorus, 266 McGuire, Edward, 261 London Symphony Orchestra, 37, 296 McQueen, Ian, 156, 261 Medieval music, 77–8, 81, 111, 138–9, 213, Macgregor, John Malcolm, 268 220, 227, 304 Machaut, Guillaume de, Messe de Nostre cantus decoration, 81 Dame,30 rhythmic modes, 78, 81 MacIlwham, Stewart, 179 Mendelssohn, Felix, 292 MacMillan, James, 229, 255, 261 Merkel, Angela, 290 MacQueen, John, 218 Messiaen, Olivier, 16, 21, 56, 88, 172 Macrobius, 274 Technique de mon langage musical, 252, Maderna, Bruno, 172, 247 299, 301 Divertimento per orchestra,29 Turangalîla-Symphonie,85–7 madrigal, 38, 154 additive rhythms, 87 echo-madrigal procedure, 38 Indian rhythm, 86 magic squares, 4, 133–4, 148, 166, 174, 179, modes of limited transposition, 86 232, 236, 238–9, 242, 244 use of rhythmic cells, 85 Magnus, St, 125, 129 Michelangelo, 239, 244, 273 Mahler, Gustav, 60, 86, 91, 161, 181, 184, Milhaud, Darius, 47, 61 222 Millennium Dome, 275 Lied von der Erde, Das, 184 Mitchell, Norman, 128, 163 Symphony No. 3, 53, 184, 213, 285, 302 Modersohn-Becker, Paula, 290 Symphony No. 9, 184, 294 Monteverdi, Claudio, 47, 78 Mair, Craig, 144 Vespers, 51, 53, 77, 89, 257 Manchester, 16, 85, 116, 138, 151, 172, 182, vocal decorative techniques, 53, 77, 79 184, 186, 212, 227, 231–2, 304 Morris, Noah, 83–4, 110, 114

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Morris, R. O., 72 Rackwick, 127 Motion, Andrew, 277, 281–2 Rackwick Bay, 205 Mott, Louise, 277 Kirkwall, 127 Mowatt, Steve, 128 Maeshowe, 125, 128 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 19–21, 25, 44, North Walls Primary School, 164 46, 60, 72, 77, 104, 159, 161–2, 166, Sanday, Island of, 129, 257, 278 169, 173, 187, 208, 222, 233–4, 268, Sanday Fiddle Club, 278 283 St Magnus Cathedral, 125, 127–8, 130, Don Giovanni, 208 163 Marriage of Figaro, The, 265 Symphony No. 38 in D major (‘Prague’), Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 30, 275 K. 504, 302 Palladio, Andrea, 273 Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550, 53, Palmer, Robert, 141 76 panchromaticism, 34 Mulliner Book, The, 47, 50, 70, 239 Pappano, Antonio, 5, 296 Murdoch, Rupert, 280 Paris, 33, 173 music and mathematics, 4, 93 parody, 4, 95, 111 music education, 6, 131, 210, 269–70, 290 Parry, Hubert, 33, 185 Musica Viva (concert series), 39 Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 5 musical analysis, 72 Patch, Harry, 282 musical meaning, 4 Pears, Peter, 131 musical nationalism, 33, 59–60 Peebles, Alistair, 129 musical quotation, 208 Peragallo, Mario, Gita in Campagna, La, musicals, 24 30 Musicians Benevolent Fund, 289 Performing Rights Society, 278–9, 281 Mussolini, Benito, 206 Perspectives of New Music (journal), 56–8 Muzak, 160, 260 Petrassi, Goffredo, 30, 39, 56, 205, 247–8, 301 National Federation of Music Societies (now Petrenko, Vasily, 295 Making Music), 210 Philharmonia Orchestra, 106–7, 132, 188, New Music Manchester Group, 4, 16–18 264 New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 64, 285 Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool), 295 Nicolson, Alasdair, 261 Picasso, Pablo, 51, 274 Nono, Luigi, 33, 172, 247 Pierrot Players, The, 89, 91, 113, 171 Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, 265 plainchant, 24, 30, 37–8, 70, 78, 81, 101–2, number symbolism, 146 134, 138, 148, 165–6, 173, 183, 205, 207, 215, 217, 220–1, 229, 238–9, Ogdon, John, 16, 264, 285 242, 244, 293, 304 Ollerenshaw, Kathleen, 236 plainsong. See plainchant Oppenheimer, Robert, 162, 213 Plato, 6, 305 Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di politics, 230, 258 Santa Cecilia (Rome), 248 British politics, 262, 269–70, 280, 290 Orff, Carl, 47, 206 polyphonic techniques, 16, 220 Orkney, 6, 96, 125–31, 139–42, 144, 156, pop music, 94, 159–61, 222, 261 175, 177, 224, 236–7, 239–40, 277, Portoghesi, Paulo, 241 293, 304–5 Portsmouth Grammar School, 277, 282 Bunertoon (Davies’s croft on Hoy), 127 Poulenc, Francis, 47 Hoy, Island of, 127–30, 134, 163, 170, Pountney, David, 287 174, 179, 189, 195, 220, 222 Pozzo, Andrea, 273 Hoy Kirk, 228 Previn, André, 163, 167

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Princeton High School Choir, 65 Royal Opera House, 155, 157, 264 Princeton University, 56, 58, 70, 73, 80, 83, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, 163, 167–9, 116, 162, 213, 215, 302, 304 174, 179, 264, 266, 269, 289 Pritchard, John, 67 Royal Philharmonic Society, 5, 251, 269 Procter-Gregg, Humphrey, 86, 138, 227, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, 129 247, 285 Rue, Pierre de la, Missa L’Homme Armé, 102 Prokoﬁev, Sergei, 182, 266 Runciman, Steven, 98 prolation, 39 Russell, Ken, 266 Pruslin, Stephen, 171 Devils, The, 127, 220 Purcell, Henry, 89, 111, 233, 259, 268 Russian Revolution, 216, 230 Dido and Aeneas, 231 Sadie, Stanley, 288 Queen Elizabeth Hall, 91, 113, 141 Salzburg Camerata, 283 Queen’s Medal for Music, The, 284 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, 205 Sanzogno, Nino, 39 Radiotelevisione Italiana, 29 Sarangadeva (Indian music theorist), 86 Orchestra of, 39, 280 Sargent, Malcolm, 289 ragtime, 84 Satie, Erik, 30, 47 Randall, James, 57–8, 73 Schafer, Murray, 3 Rattle, Simon, 290 Schenker, Heinrich, 58, 60, 102, 301 Ratz, Erwin, 301 Harmony,71 Einführung in die musikalische Schoenberg, Arnold, 17, 21, 30–5, 43, 58, 60, Formenlehre, 71, 74, 212, 300 62–3, 73, 80, 161, 184 Rebecchini, Giuseppe, 240–2 atonality, 34, 91 Reihe, Die (journal), 57 Chamber Symphony No. 1, 184 religion, 4–6, 162, 304 ‘Composition with Twelve Tones’, 254 Renaissance music, 77, 93, 111, 138, 182, Erwartung, 252 220, 227, 304 Five Pieces for Orchestra, 31, 34 rhythm, 21, 87, 174, 180, 211, 255 Harmonielehre, 71, 186 rhythmic cells, 82 Moses und Aron,57 rhythmic modulation, 181 Pierrot Lunaire, 84, 91–2, 113, 184, 253 Rignold, Hugh, 295 use of Sprechgesang,92 Rilke, Rainer Maria, 222 String Quartet No. 1, 184 Briefe an einen jungen Dichter, 223 String Quartet No. 2, 184, 213 Ritchie, Ian, 261 String Trio, 184 Rognoni, Luigi, Espressionismo e Survivor from Warsaw, A, 184 dodecafonia, 301 twelve-tone technique, 35, 91 Romantic music, 32, 47, 59, 77, 91 Verklärte Nacht, 254–5 Rome, 4, 29–30, 33, 37, 39, 54, 173, 205–7, Violin Concerto, 57 240–5, 247–8, 254, 290, 293, 296, Schools Music Association, 151 301, 304 Schrade, Leo, ‘Darstellungen der Töne an Royal Academy of Music, 287 den Kapitellen der Abteikirche zu Royal Albert Hall, The, 106, 177, 261, 288, Cluny’, 212 291 Schubert, Franz, 60, 72, 181, 261 Royal Concert Hall (Nottingham), 179 Schumann, Robert, 46, 61, 208 Royal Festival Hall, 67, 85–6, 106, 167, 169, Carnaval,44 256, 264 Symphony No. 2, 208 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, use of ciphers, 221 39, 106, 295 Schütz, Heinrich, 30 Royal Military School of Music, 266 Weihnachtshistorie, 104

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science, 6, 34, 155, 158, 162, 261, 267, 271, Stanford, Charles Villiers, 33, 185 275, 277, 279, 281 Stein, Erwin, 303 Scottish Chamber Orchestra, 155, 163, 165, Stern, Isaac, 163, 167 175–6, 261, 269, 277 Stevens, Denis, 218 Scottish Opera, 265 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 144 Scottish Protestant Church, 246 Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 17, 21, 33, 57, 73, Sedlmayr, Hans, 5, 213 106, 172, 247, 255 Architektur Borrominis, Die, 245 Klaverstück XI,36 Entstehung der Kathedrale, Die, 45, 185, Kontrapunkte No. 1,36 212 Stockholm, 157 Semley (Wiltshire), 114 Stourton, Edward, 249–50 Serlio, Sebastiano, 273 Stow, Randolph, 98 Service, Tom, 296–8 Strathclyde Regional Council, 261 Sessions, Roger, 59–60, 73, 213, 302 Strauss, Richard, 292 Montezuma,3 Stravinsky, Igor, 21, 32–3, 46–7, 57, 61, 112, set theory, 82 172, 292 Shakespeare, William, 259, 270 Ave Maria,49 Romeo and Juliet, 163 Circus Polka, 231 Shaw, George Bernard, 6 Mass, 49 Shetland, 240 Pater Noster,49 Shostakovich, Dmitri, 65, 182, 187, 222, 245, Rake’s Progress, The, 231 266 Rite of Spring, The, 253 Symphony No. 9, 186 Symphony in Three Movements, 172 Sibelius, Jean, 181 Strunk, Oliver, 73 Symphony No. 3, 181 Swammerdam, Jan, 82 Symphony No. 4, 185 Sweeney, William, 261 Symphony No. 5, 133 Symphony Space (Broadway), 285 Symphony No. 6, 182 Symphony No. 7, 181–2, 185 Taverner, John, 110, 116, 227 Valse Triste, 231 In Nomine, 50, 53, 68, 70, 215, 220 Siena (Tuscany), 278 Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas, 70, 239 Skalkottas, Nikos, 4, 18 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 61, 137–8, 273 Sonatina, 18 Nutcracker, The, 231 Tender Melody,18 Symphony No. 6 (‘Pathétique’), 231, twelve-note technique, 18 294 Smalley, Roger, 53–5 Teatri del Popolo (Milan), 29 Society for the Promotion of New Music Thatcher, Margaret, 271, 281, 290 (now Sound and Music), 88, 263 thematic transformation process, 70, 81, 93, South Africa, 265 133–5, 148–9, 166, 174, 176–7, 181, choral singing tradition, 261 183, 207–8, 217, 236–7, 293 Spence, Magnus, 125 Theocritus, 225 Spinner, Leopold, 303 Thomas, Mary, 83, 91 St George’s Chapel Windsor Choir, 266 Thompson, D’Arcy, Growth and Form, On, St Magnus Festival, 128, 131, 140–1, 156, 212 163–4, 167, 268, 277, 279, 304 Thomson, Virgil, 31 St Magnus Singers, 163 Tippett, Michael, 108, 150 St Mary’s Cathedral (Edinburgh), 175 tonality/modality, 149, 166, 180, 182–3, 209, St Paul’s Cathedral Choir, 266 214, 240, 244, 255, 293 St Thomas Cathedral (Portsmouth), 277 total serialism, 35–6 Stalin, Joseph, 254 Tovey, Donald, 72

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Trakl, Georg, 84, 95, 109–10, 222 Wagner, Richard, 254, 292 Offenbarung und Untergang, 83, 109, 223 Walker, Alan, 56–8 twelve-tone technique, 36, 79–80, 247, 303 Walsh, Stephen, 109–14 Wardour Castle Summer School, 73 übergreifende Form, 45, 185, 213 Webern, Anton, 4, 30, 35, 43, 60, 173, 254, United Nations, 174, 177 303 United States of America, 56, 59–66, 73, 80, musical expression, 35 110, 131, 141, 249 Variations for Piano, Op. 27, 17, 43 musical nationalism, 61 Weill, Kurt, Lindberghﬂug, Der,30 Schoenberg–Schenker tradition, 61 Weir, Judith, 255 University College Hospital (London), 298 Westminster Abbey, 267, 293 Uppsala University (Sweden), 129 Choir of, 266 Westminster Cathedral, 250, 267 Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 47, 185, 192, 250, Choir of, 248, 266 267–8 Westminster Central Hall, 266 Sinfonia antartica, 188 Wicks, Allan, 227 Venice, 29, 180 Williams, John, 232 verse anthem, 38 Williamson, Malcolm, 249 Vesalius, Andreas, 101 Winham, Godfrey, 57 De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 101 Vienna, 17, 60, 91–2, 169 Xenakis, Iannis, 73 Viennese café music, 91–2 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, 184 Yeats, Marc, 261 Vinci, Leonardo da, 147, 274 Vlad, Roman, 247 Zhdanov, Andrei, 159 Vogelweide, Walther von der, 217 Zimmermann, Bernd Alois, Perspectives – Voragine, Jacobus de, Legenda Aurea, 228 Music for an Imaginary Ballet,30