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7 X 11 Long.P65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-02884-4 - The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett: Modern Times and Metaphysics David Clarke Index More information Index a priori conditions/knowledge, 10, 69, 149, analysis, musical, 6, 24, 26, 28, 34–5, 46, 58, 184, 186, 202 60, 97, 105, 157, 164, 172, 174, Abbate, Carolyn, 163, 167, 182 175–9, 196–9, 208, 213–19, 227, absolute, the, 5, 15, 33, 96, 139, 140, 142, 237, 241, 245 154, 227, 243, 263, 281 n.!77, 288 androgyny, 233, 261, 277 n.!24, 281 n.!78 n.!25, 292 n.!74 Annan, Noel, 228–9 absolute music, 142 Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 284 n.!138, n.!140 abstraction, 2, 12, 19–20, 23, 26, 27, 31, 74, anthropomorphism, 47, 201 150, 202, 228, 243–8 anti-democratism, 89, 244; see also absurdity, 66–7, 148, 268 democratism Adorno, Theodor, W., 6, 8, 9, 33–4, 93, antihumanism, 90–2, 94–5, 240, 245; see 125–6, 138, 139–41, 144–5, 151, also posthumanism 188, 201–2, 204, 208, 222, 223, antinomy, 9, 103, 136, 138, 140, 144, 207, 227–8, 229, 231, 289 n.!42, 295 n.!13, 243; see also dialectics; dualism; 300 n.!80, 301 n.!97, 303–4 n.!13, 306 polarity n.!46, 307 n.!49 anti-Semitism, 245, 247, 269 Aeolian mode, see mode, Aeolian Apollo, 42, 45, 71, 191, 245–6, 277 n.!24; see aesthetic, the, 3, 37, 44, 46, 56, 67, 72, 84, also Apollonian, the 91, 94, 105, 106, 111, 149, 179, 184, Apollonian, the, 6, 37, 41, 43–7, 51–4, 57, 188, 202, 246, 263; see also aesthetics 64, 65, 67–8, 71, 75, 84, 246–7, 254, aesthetics, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 35, 36, 38, 47, 50, 258, 268–9, 278 n.!41, n.!46; see also 67, 84, 86, 87–8, 91, 105, 108, 126, Apollo 136, 139, 141, 159, 163, 184, 187, aporia, 130–1, 141, 144, 185–8, 200, 234, 189–90, 197, 200–3, 223, 231, 235, 301 n.!97 236, 237, 239, 243, 244–5, 246, 254, appearance, 44–5, 52–3, 60, 94, 151, 183, 256, 261, 269; see also aesthetic, the; 197; see also phenomenon autonomy, artistic; Tippett, archaism, 18, 29, 31, 51, 156 Michael, aesthetics of archetype, 14, 18, 29, 56, 58, 65, 80, 90, 119, affirmation, 4, 10, 15, 36, 39, 63, 65, 86, 89, 137, 142, 181, 202, 209, 240, 242, 91–2, 94–5, 104, 146, 148, 149, 151, 244, 259, 274 n.!50 153–4, 163, 182–3, 185–7, 191–2, historical, 125, 127, 138, 209, 291 n.!64, 201, 203, 229, 232, 235, 247, 292 295 n.!28, 304 n.!20 n.!74 musical, 29 agnosticism, 15, 98, 105, 144, 152, 186, 204; notional, 125 see also atheism Aristotle, 66, 91, 95 Albright, Daniel, 250 artefact, 71, 139, 141, 142, 189, 235, 236–7, alienation, 5–6, 15–16, 43, 67, 89, 150, 220, 241–3, 245–7, 249–50, 251, 256, 226, 231, 232, 261, 262 260, 292–3 n.!87 Allinson, Francesca, 248 artwork, 1, 7, 17, 125, 130, 139, 140, 142, alterity, 94, 150; see also other, the 144–5, 204, 225, 229, 235, 236, 239, ambivalence, 10, 41, 82, 92, 152, 158, 159, 240, 241, 242, 246 160, 189, 192, 202, 213, 223, 238, associationism 328 240, 242, 247, 249, 256, 301–2 n.!111 musical, 47, 76, 124, 127, 259, 260–1 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-02884-4 - The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett: Modern Times and Metaphysics David Clarke Index More information 329 Index poetic, 238, 239, 244, see also Bergson, Henri, 63 connotation Berlin, Isaiah, 143, 228, 229, 281 n.!77 astrology, 7, 281 n.!73, 309–10 n.!24 Bernstein, J. M., 2, 3, 150–1, 201, 294–5 atheism, 105, 139, 152, 185, 186, 187, 191, n.!13, 300 n.!79, n.!80 300 n.!78; see also agnosticism Bible, the, 98, 103, 112 atom bomb, 5; see also nuclear war Biddle, Ian, 281 n.!77, 289 n.!33, n.!37 atonality, 4, 133, 136, 211 black material, 240–1, 269, 299 n.!72, 310 Attenborough, David, 154 n.!32 Auden, W. H., 246 Blake, William, 14, 86 Augustine, Saint, 9, 96, 97–8, 100, 101–5, Bloom, Harold, 313 n.!87, n.!92 108, 111, 112–13, 115, 116, 118, 119, blues, 162 122–3, 124, 130, 138–9, 141, 143, body, the, 28, 29, 31, 37, 43, 53–5, 58, 62, 144, 145, 288 n.!25 66, 68, 72, 81, 82, 122, 130, 154, 164, Confessions, 98, 100, 103, 112–13, 131, 182, 201–2, 206, 243, 250, 262; see 287 n.!10, n.!18, 290 n.!48 also corporeal, the; somatic, the Auschwitz, 3, 93, 154, 202 Bohlmann, Otto, 86, 284 n.!129 authenticity, 15, 63, 87, 89, 105, 167, 226, Borthwick, Alastair, 291 n.!60 234, 247 Boulez, Pierre, 224 author, death of, 246 bourgeoisie, 11, 108, 155, 163, 226 authoriality, 119, 148, 161, 163–4, 260–1; Bowen, Meirion, 72, 192, 207, 211, 216, see also author, death of 233, 237, 275 n.!2, 279 n.!52, 303 autonomy, 2–3, 5, 9–10, 16, 33–4, 69, 104, n.!13, 307 n.!49, 308 n.!64 182, 187, 188, 202, 203, 300 n.!79; Bowie, Andrew, 270 n.!5 see also separation of spheres Brecht, Bertolt, 67, 87 artistic, 11, 33, 142, 144, 204, 226, 236, Brett, Philip, 232, 305 n.!25 246, 249 Bridgwater, Patrick, 283 n.!125 musical, 9, 21, 27, 33, 60, 63, 74, 109, 114, British musical establishment, 233 158, 167–9, 179–81, 182, 225, 227; Britten, Benjamin, 216, 232, 233, 305 n.!25 see also immanence, musical Bronowski, Jacob, 154, 156, 293–4 n.!3, 294 Ayerst, David, 14, 272 n.!21 n.!11 Brooke, Roger, 275 n.!55 Bach, J. S., 15, 52, 127, 209, 245 Brown, Peter, 288 n.!25 Bacon, Francis, 242 Bryars, Gavin, 223 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 8, 12, 95, 162–3, 166; see Burke, Edmund, 152 also dialogism Burnet, Thomas, 152 Bali, 216 Busoni, Ferruccio, 142, 293 n.!88 Ballantine, Christopher, 289 n.!42 Byzantium chord, 251, 253–4, 256, 260, Barthes, Roland, 27, 31, 281 n.!83 265–6, 313 n.!78 bathos, 148, 155, 161, 197, 254 Bax, Arnold, 44, 279 n.!56 Cairns, David, 44 Baynes, H. G., 18 Cambridge Orator, 271 n.!15 BBC, 142 Cambridge Ritualists, 40, 41 beauty, 2, 13, 23, 28, 45, 69, 90, 131, 145, capitalism, 88–9, 306, n.!36 240–1, 244, 245, 246, 249, 300 n.!79 Cartesianism, 52, 54, 275 n.!55 becoming, 67, 75, 91, 95, 153, 250 Carus, K. G., 16 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 15, 21, 52, 85, 105, categorical imperative, 184, 202 108, 111, 153, 163, 209–11, 223, 225, Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 269 227, 231, 234, 248, 249, 262, 301 Chambers, G. B., 286 n.!7 n.!100, 304 n.!19 chaos, 71, 75, 86, 87, 153, 187, 209 Benjamin, Walter, 155 chora, semiotic, 262–3, 266 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-02884-4 - The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett: Modern Times and Metaphysics David Clarke Index More information 330 Index Christianity, 15, 39, 64, 86, 87, 100, 102–4, 108–9, 112, 118, 143, 145, 188, 191, 144, 250, 293 n.!3 241, 243–4, 260 chromaticism, 50, 84, 98, 136, 172, 196, consonance, 27, 50, 126, 130, 175, 177, 178, 219, 220, 258 181, 197, 205; see also higher chthonian, the, 57, 68, 72, 266 consonance cinema, 155 continuity, musical, 21, 97, 109, 123–4, 127, circle of fifths, see fifths, circle of 170, 172, 178, 181; see also Clare, Anthony, 284 n.!134, 308 n.!61 development, musical; Clarke, David, 270 n.!1, 276 n.!8, 280 n.!57, discontinuity, musical 282 n.!98, 297 n.!47, 299 n.!69, 307 Cornford, F. M., 40, 42, 313 n.!84 n.!49, 312 n.!66 corporeal, the, 29, 54, 62; see also body, the; Clarke, John J., 55, 281 n.!71 somatic, the class [social], 11, 33, 39, 89, 155, 248, 306 Craig, Cairns, 238–9, 244, 246, 284 n.!137 n.!36 critique, 4–5, 10–11, 16, 32, 33, 62, 85, closet, 230, 232, 233–4 91–2, 108, 111–12, 125–6, 138, 144, cognition, 26, 28–9, 52, 71, 107, 113, 139, 149, 158, 159, 163, 170, 186, 188, 145, 177, 186, 197, 227, 262 199, 201, 211, 220, 228, 231, 249, Cold War, 5, 87, 88, 142, 282 n.!104, 307 264 n.!57 Cross, Jonathan, 312 n.!73 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 238 culture, 5, 9, 10, 11–12, 15, 29, 33, 37–8, 52, collective unconscious, 6, 16, 18–19, 29, 33, 53, 55, 58, 69, 84, 87, 89, 91, 94, 98, 44, 53, 55, 56, 137, 238, 239; see also 105, 137, 149–50, 154–6, 159, Great Memory 162–3, 188, 191, 206, 208, 210, Collisson, Stephen, 216 223–8, 229, 232, 234, 236, 239, 243, Cooke, Mervyn, 304 n.!23, 305 n.!25 244, 245, 248, 249, 259, 261, 267, comedy, 20, 37, 42, 45, 65, 67, 148, 187 268, 269, 282 n.!95. 312 n.!66 communism, 89, 143, 267; see also classical, 249, 251 Marxism, socialism, Trotskyism cyclic principle, 39, 84, 85, 95, 114, 150, compassion, 46, 75, 76, 89, 92, 210, 234 170, 173, 199, 213, 250; see also complexity, 236, 242–3, 247, 250, 254, 263, eternal return; time, cyclic 268 concept of understanding, 139, 140, 189, daemonism/daimonic, the, 18, 40, 68, 239, 196–7, 200, 301 n.!92 240, 244 conceptual, the, 1, 2, 9, 10, 26, 28–9, 51, Dahlhaus, Carl, 209, 274 n.!43, 293 n.!88 119, 130, 138, 140, 189, 200–1, 202, Davies, Peter Maxwell, 98, 224 204, 206–7, 227, 238, 262, 296 n.!33, Davis, Andrew, 293 n.!2, 296 n.!31 299 n.!72; see also non-conceptual, Davis, Colin, 174 the De Man, Paul, 302 n.!116 Cone, Edward T., 163 Debussy, Claude, 279 n.!56 connotation, 32, 55, 72, 76, 80, 157, 162, decentring, 91, 103, 161, 164, 167, 296 n.!34 167, 216, 237, 249, 250, 260, 261, democratism, 12, 91; see also anti- 263 democratism consciousness demythologization, 104 cultural/historical/social, 2–4, 5, 11, 40, Derrida, Jacques, 8 89, 102, 105, 112, 142–5, 150–1, desire, 34, 42, 54, 64, 66, 145, 191, 229, 232, 153–4, 244, 261, 264, 266–7, 269 239, 245, 249–50, 276 n.!14 ironic, 153–4, 160–1 despair, 79, 140–1, 160, 185–8, 292 n.!81 levels/registers of, 54, 55–6, 58, 62 Deus, creator omnium, 96, 98, 114, 123, 148 mental, 6, 12, 16–17, 19, 21, 26, 28–31, developing variation, 274 n.!43 34, 43, 45, 53, 55–8, 62, 105–7, development, musical, 76, 97, 158–9, © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-02884-4 - The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett: Modern Times and Metaphysics David Clarke Index More information 331 Index 164–6, 175, 179, 303–4 n.!13; see also dualism, 3, 6, 7, 23, 52–3, 57, 64, 90, 94, continuity, musical; developing 101, 125, 142, 163, 183, 238, 268, variation 274 n.!51, 275 n.!55, 278 n.!41; see Dewey, John, 150–1, 294–5 n.!13 also antinomy; dialectics; polarity dialectics, 7, 12, 18, 20, 33, 35, 87, 95, 96, tonal, 50–1, 74, 280 n.!57; see also 107, 108, 119, 125–6, 138, 140–1, polarity, tonal 145, 153, 185–7, 195, 199, 202, 206, 211, 219–20, 223, 227, 228, 238, 240, Eagleton, Terry, 87, 270 n.!5 245, 251, 264, 267; see also East, the, 41, 64, 157, 216; see also antinomy; negation; polarity orientalism dialogism, 12, 95, 150, 162–4, 171, 186, 297 Easterling, P.
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