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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15799-6 — Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings Peter Maxwell Davies , Edited by Nicholas Jones Index More Information Index 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] © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15799-6 — Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings Peter Maxwell Davies , Edited by Nicholas Jones Index More Information Index 323 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15799-6 — Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings Peter Maxwell Davies , Edited by Nicholas Jones Index More Information 324 Index 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15799-6 — Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings Peter Maxwell Davies , Edited by Nicholas Jones Index More Information Index 325 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.