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absolute music 62, 99 Angel Fighter 121, 167–9, 288, 290 Accrington 4, 39, 74, 204–5, 304 Antiphonies for Piano and Orchestra 18, Adès, Thomas 53, 286 275, 288 Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund 97, 118, Axe Manual, The 13–15, 29, 57–62, 289 122, 127, 277, 300 Bach-Birtwistle: Three Arias 289 Aimard, Pierre-Laurent 287 Bach-Birtwistle: Three Fugues from The Aldeburgh Festival 140, 285, 288 Art of the Fugue 289 aleatory 36, 67–8, 80, 94, 121–3, 125, Betty Freeman: Her Tango 265, 289 127–9, 272 Birthday Song 71, 89 Anderson, Barry 63, 70, 87–9, 91, 93, 147 Bogenstrich 167, 289, 299 Ansty Coombe (Wiltshire) 146, 204 Bogenstrich Liebes-Lied 190, 289 ApIvor, Denis 277 Bourdon 290 Arditti String Quartet 287 Cantata 125, 275 Arnold, Malcolm 277 Cantus Iambeus 289 avant-garde 39, 273, 277, 282, 285–6 Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum 146, 153–4, 156, 161–6, Babbitt, Milton 64, 68 233, 253–4, 275 Philomel 64 Chanson de Geste 71–2, 91, 275, 287 Bach, Johann Sebastian 9, 67, 70, 72 Chorale from a Toy-Shop 254 Barrett, Richard 283–4 Chorales for Orchestra 11, 29, 31–3, 67, Barthes, Roland 123–6, 129, 167, 174 143, 146 Bartók, Bela 47, 276, 278 Chronometer 26, 63, 71–87, 91–4 BBC Radiophonic Workshop 65–6 Clarinet Quintet 156, 275 BBC Symphony Orchestra 73 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Beardslee, Bethany 64 18–25, 288, 290, 299 Beckett, Samuel 124 Corridor, The 9, 18, 25, 147, 253, Beethoven, Ludwig van 97–8, 300 290, 294 Symphony No. 3 122 Crescent Moon over the Irrational 290 Benjamin, George 12–13 Crowd 167, 289 Into the Little Hill 12 Cry of Anubis, The 18, 109, 207, 220–2, Written on Skin 12 287 Bennett, Richard Rodney 133, 279, 306 Dance of the Metro-Gnome 265 Music for Two Pianos 280 Deowa 306–7 Berg, Alban Dinah and Nick’s Love Song 206, Chamber Concerto 282 215, 220 Berio, Luciano 283 Down by the Greenwood Side 206 Berlin, Isaiah 94 Duets for Storab 109, 176, 180–91, Bertels, Lieven 80, 86 195–6, 198, 201 Birtwistle, Harrison, works Earth Dances 4–5, 20, 99–108, 133, 156, 17 Tate Riffs 289 176, 204, 208, 223, 233, 304, 307 26 Orpheus Elegies 125, 190, 192, Endless Parade 16, 175, 207, 222–5, 289, 294–5 228, 275 ...agm...146, 153, 156, 274–5, 285, Entr’actes 133 287, 304, 307–9 Entr’actes and Sappho Fragments 31, 33, An die Musik 133, 190, 304, 307 122, 147, 308

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Exody ‘23:59:59’ 207, 209, 222, 225–8, Nine Settings of Lorine Niedecker 190, 288 289 Fanfare 289 Nomos 64, 137 Fantasia upon All the Notes 290 Oboe Quartet 274–5, 290 Fields of Sorrow, The 80, 153, 210 On the Sheer Threshold of the Night 129, Five Chorale Preludes 275 275, 287, 297 Five Distances 95 Oockooing Bird, The 293 For O, for O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot Ostinato with Melody 233, 247–8, 79, 283–4, 304, 307 252–61, 263, 265, 289 Four Interludes for a Tragedy 69–70, 91, Panic 16, 19, 95, 189, 299, 301 130 Prologue 137, 149 Four Poems by Jaan Kaplinski 190 Pulse Sampler 28 Four Songs of Autumn 275, 304, 307 Pulse Shadows, see also Nine From Vanitas 190, 290 Movements for String Quartet and Gawain 9, 133, 146, 160, 219, 304, 307 Nine Settings of Celan 8, 16, 125, Gawain’s Journey 287 274–5, 288 Gleam, The 289 Punch and Judy 26, 45, 47, 50, 52, 132–3, Gigue Machine 264–73, 290–1 146, 206, 300, 304, 306, 308 Grimethorpe Aria 204, 210, 214–16, 220 Refrains and Choruses 26, 30–1, 33, Harrison’s Clocks 15, 26, 53, 58, 265, 287 137–41, 143, 189, 275, 305 Imaginary Landscape, An 71, 137, Responses: Sweet Disorder and the 149–50, 153, 206–7, 210–15, 220 Carefully Careless 25 In Broken Images 79, 290, 300 Ring Dance of the Nazarene 167, 190, 289 Interrupted Endless Melody, An 125, 275 Ritual Fragments 105 Io Passion, The 146, 289 Roddy’s Reel 176, 178, 198, 200–2, 290 Last Supper, The 9, 12, 63, 153, 161, 169, Sadness of Komachi, The 289 287–9 Salford Toccata 304, 308 Linoi 70, 109, 131, 150, 275, 283 Saraband: The King’s Farewell 265, 289 Lullaby 289 Second Mrs Kong, The 62, 71, 161, 301–2 Machaut à ma Manière 287 Secret Theatre 19, 105, 121, 146, 173, Mask of Orpheus, The 28, 63–5, 69–70, 199, 227, 256, 261, 263, 275 72, 78, 84, 87–94, 133, 146–8, 150, Semper Dowland, semper dolens: Theatre 153, 156, 161, 173, 177, 204, 220, 293, of Melancholy 9, 18, 290 299–300, 304, 306–7 Shadow of Night, The 4, 6, 9–11, 13, Medusa 67, 70, 91 19–20, 25, 232–45, 248–53, 256, 263, Melencolia I 1, 4, 16, 18, 109, 206, 220, 288–9, 297–9 234, 253, 275, 293 Signals 70, 72, 84 Message, The 289 Silbury Air 33, 58, 125, 153, 175, 195, Minotaur, The 12, 161, 289, 293–300 204, 206, 285, 304, 308–9 Monodrama 64, 69, 130, 304, 308 Sonance 2000 287, 289 Monody for Corpus Christi 140, 254, 275 Sonance Severance 2000 287, 289 Moth Requiem, The 93, 190, 290 Song of Myself 289 Narration: A Description of the Passing Songs from the Same Earth 190, 290 of a Year 26, 306 String Quartet: The Tree of Strings 13, Nenia: The Death of Orpheus 71, 15, 20, 176, 189, 191, 195, 198–201, 149–53, 206, 210, 304, 306, 308 274–5, 288–9, 299 Neruda Madrigales 190, 289 Tenebrae David 289 Night’s Black Bird 4, 232–48, 252, 263, Theseus Game 19, 96, 125, 199, 207, 222, 289, 297 227–8, 231, 288–9 Nine Movements for String Quartet, see Three Brendel Settings 190, 289 also Pulse Shadows 191, 275, 288 Three Settings of Celan, see also Nine Nine Settings of Celan, see also Pulse Settings of Celan and Pulse Shadows Shadows 190, 275, 287–8 284, 286

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Birtwistle, Harrison, works (cont.) Piece for piano [untitled] 304 Three Latin Motets 167 Suite for Two Clarinets 304 Three Movements for String Quartet, see Three Sonatas for Nine Instruments also Nine Movements for String 140–3, 285 Quartet and Pulse Shadows 284 Trojan War Will Not Take Place, The Three Movements with Fanfares 29, (incidental music) 305 33–9, 44 ‘Two 14th century motets on St Today Too 289 Edmund’ 305 Tombeau in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky Volpone (incidental music) 305 137 Birtwistle, Silas 132–3, 143, 175–6, 178, Tragoedia 29–30, 33, 36, 39–58, 95, 133, 191, 200, 204, 304 147, 153, 189, 204, 275, 285, Blaser, Robin 190 305–6, 308 Boulez, Pierre 13, 17, 29–30, 51, 73, 122–3, Trio 290 125–9, 141, 156, 160, 174, 276, 280, Triumph of Time, The 11, 73–4, 285, 287, 291 99–100, 104, 108–18, 137, 149, Le Marteau Sans Maître 122, 140, 283 206–10, 215–20, 223, 225, Piano Sonata No. 3 125 231, 285 Structures Ia 123 Ut Heremita Solus 275, 283–4 Brendel, Alfred 94 Verses 275, 304, 308 Britten, Benjamin 69, 274, 277, 279, 283, Verses for Ensembles 19, 84, 96, 125, 147, 285, 288 149–50, 152–3, 161–2 Lachrymae 279 Virelai (Sus une fontayne) 289 Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo 279 White and Light, see also Three Settings Brown, George Mackay 198 of Celan, Nine Settings of Celan and Bruegel, Pieter 31, 149, 218 Pulse Shadows 4, 7–8, 16–17 Triumph of Time, The 109–10, 216 Woman and the Hare, The 190 Bryars, Gavin 286 World Is Discovered, The 39, 275, 305 BSEM (British Society for Electronic Yan Tan Tethera 95, 109, 146, 154, 175, Music) 68–9 204, 304, 308 Birtwistle, Harrison unpublished works Cage, John 80, 122–8, 143, 174, 276, 291 Brand (incidental music) 72 Williams Mix 80 ‘Come lovers bring your lovers’ 305 Calder, Alexander 38 ‘Crescendo e Diminuendo, “Nowell, Cardew, Cornelius 279, 286 Nowell”’ 305 Piano Piece 279 Dance of the Pendle Witches 304 Piano Sonata No. 2 279 Hamlet (incidental music) 305 Septet for Percussion 279 ‘Instrumental Movement. Heinrich Two Books of Study for Pianists 279 Isaac’ 305 Carlos, Wendy ‘Leaves’ 305 Switched-on Bach 67 ‘Love a thousand sweet distilling’ 305 Carter, Elliott Lorca (incidental music) 305 String Quartet No. 2 279 ‘Medieval Carol’ 305 Cary, Tristram 65–6, 69 ‘Medieval Carol, A’ 306 Trios 73 ‘Mime’ 306 Cashian, Philip 286 Motet for Three Voices 137–40, 305 Celan, Paul 7, 9, 11–12 ‘Music for a Play’ 305 ‘Todesfuge’ 192 Music for Sleep 306 ‘Weiss und Leicht’ 4–7 ‘Nicholas Nye’ 133, 174, 305 ceremony 4, 33, 79 Offence, The (ﬁlm soundtrack) 71, 86 Cézanne, Paul 247 Pantomime 133, 174, 304 Chapman, George 9, 234, 297 Pendle Mystery 304 Childers Green (Lancashire) 204–5 Piece for oboe and piano [untitled] 305 Clarke, James 284

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classicism 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 23, 25, 28, 52, 55, Emsley, Richard 284 227, 270 Erber, James 284 Cockerall, David 67, 75, 82 Evangelisti, Franco 283 Cocteau, Jean 301 expressionism 16, 30, 122, 276 La Belle et la Bête 302 Orphée 301 Fano, Michael Cone, Edward T. 147 Sonata for Two Pianos 279 Conolly, Justin 68 Feldman, Morton 69, 125 Cranborne Chase School 146, 204, 305–6 Ferneyhough, Brian 283–5 Crimp, Martin 12 Finnissy, Michael 284 cubism 71, 161, 233 Fortner, Wolfgang 276 Cuillin Hills (Isle of Skye) 177–8, 190, 193, Foucault, Michel 126 195, 201–2 Fox, Christopher 283 Fricker, Peter Racine 277, 279 Darmstadt 39, 122–4, 133, 141, 273, 276–86, 306 Gabrieli, Giovanni 79, 300, 305 Danyel, John 4, 9, 11 Gerhard, Roberto 279 Davies, Peter Maxwell 9, 38, 68, The Duenna 279 98, 124, 198, 204, 273–4, Gervasoni, Stefano 132 281–3, 285, 305–6 Gramigna 132 Alma Redemptoris Mater 140 gesture 13, 20, 23, 29–31, 34, 38–9, 43, 47, Jacobite Rising, The 198 57, 62, 95–119, 122, 147, 154, 156, Naxos String Quartet No. 8 9 169, 183–4, 199, 215, 218–19, 221, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano 280 225, 242, 257, 259, 291 Symphony No. 1 99 Gilbert, Anthony 30 Worldes Blis 99 Godard, Jean-Luc 32 Davidovsky, Mario Goehr, Alexander 13, 38–9, 124, 204, Electronic Study No. 1 98 273–4, 279–80, 283, 285 Davies, Hugh 68, 70 Fantasias, Op. 3 279–80 Dearden, Ian 89, 91 Pastorals, Op. 19 274 Debussy, Claude 294 Sonata in One Movement for Piano, De la Mare, Walter Op. 2 279 ‘Nicholas Nye’ 133 Goehr, Walter 38 Dench, Chris 283 Goeyvaerts, Karel 276 Derbyshire, Delia 66 Gordon, Seton 189 Derrida, Jacques 124, 126, 174 Grass, Günter 261, 293 Dohnányi, Christoph von 287 Grillo, Fernando 72 Donaueschingen Festival 273–4, 285, 291 Grogono, Peter 75, 77–8, 82 Dowland, John 9, 237, 247, 297 groove 29, 58 ‘Flow, My Tears’ 237–9 Gruber, Howard E. 150 ‘In Darkness Let Me Dwell’ 9, 234, 238, 256, 297, 299 Hacker, Alan 66, 69–70, 92 Dürer, Albrecht Hall, Peter 88 Melencolia I 9, 234, 247, 293 Hall, Richard 124 Dyson, George Hallaig (Isle of Raasay) 196–7 Children’s Suite after Walter de la Harrison, Jonty 72, 87, 92 Mare 133 Harsent, David 9, 190, 294, 300, 307 Harvey, Jonathan 286 Edinburgh Festival 192, 305 Hatten, Robert S. 96–9, 103–5, 107, 112, Eisenstein, Sergei 51 117–19 Elgar, Edward 175 Heaney, Seamus 192–3 EMS (Electronic Music Studios) 64, 66–9, Henderson, Robert 39 71–5, 78, 80–1, 83–4, 87, 89, 91–4 Henze, Hans Werner 93, 276

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Highland Clearances 192, 195–6, 199, 201, MacLean, Sorley 15, 190–6, 198, 299 202, 299 Hindemith, Paul 276, 278 ‘An Cuilithionn’ [‘The Cuillin’] 195, 201 Hodges, Nicolas 264 ‘An Uair a Labhras Mi Mu Aodann’ Hodgson, Brian 66 [‘When I Speak of the Face’] 192 Holbrook, John 75 ‘Coilltean Ratharsair’ [‘The Woods of Holst, Gustav Raasay’] 202 Egdon Heath 195 Dàin do Eimhir [Poems to Eimhir] 192–3 Hopkins, Anthony 277 ‘Hallaig’ 192–3, 196, 198 Hopkins, John 71 Reothairt is Contraigh [Spring Tide and Howarth, Elgar 273, 287 Neap Tide] 191 Huncoat Power Station (Lancashire) 205 ‘Screapadal’ 196 ‘Craobh nan Teud’ [‘The Tree of Ibsen, Henrik Strings’] 190, 198 Brand 72 MacLeod, Roddy 178, 201–2 integral-serialism 122–3 Maderna, Bruno 283 IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Mallarmé, Stéphane 124–5 Coordination Acoustique/Musique) Matisse, Henri 233 87, 89, 147, 287 Maxwell, Melinda 92 ISCM (International Society for melancholy 9, 11, 19, 210, 234, 261, 293 Contemporary Music) 278 Mellers, Wilfrid 277 Isaac, Heinrich 9, 133, 140 Mendelssohn, Felix 20, 23, 25 Mere (Wiltshire) 204 Kandinsky, Wassily 233 Messiaen, Olivier 13, 38–9, 131, 276, 291 Kay, John 74 La Merle Noir 234 King’s College London 12 Quartet for the End of Time 38–9 Klee, Paul 29, 95, 109, 152, 233, 247 Turangalîla-Symphonie 38–9 Korevaar, David 287 metaphor 29, 55, 191, 195, 200, 206–31, Krenek, Ernst 276 297, 299 Metzger, Heinz-Klaus 280 labyrinth 12, 33, 100, 108, 206–31, 297 Michaux, Henri 104 Lacan, Jacques 126, 302 Milan Electronic Music Studio 283 Lachenmann, Helmut 291 Milhaud, Darius 276 lament 190, 192, 196, 198, 201, 210, 212, mimesis 212, 218–19, 225, 259 219, 294–5, 297, 299–300 modernism 4, 11, 13, 17–19, 25, 27, 67, 73, landscape 7, 19, 30–1, 175, 206–7, 210, 95, 98, 123, 128, 174, 180, 184, 192, 295, 297 264, 273, 276–9, 285, 290, 295, Lansky, Paul 64 299–300 Larkhill (Wiltshire) 204 Mondrian, Piet 233 late style 25, 57, 167, 264, 300 Moog, Bob 67 Lawley, Sue 177 Moran, Robert 283 Lee, Peter 67, 146, 306 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 97 Lidov, David 96–7, 107 Muldowney, Dominic 92, 95, 100 Ligeti, György 291 musique concrète 86–7, 291 liminality 210–12, 293, 297, 302 mythology 12, 25, 28, 192, 208, 273, 293, London Sinfonietta 71, 155 300 Lumet, Sidney 71 Lutyens, Elizabeth 279 Nagano, Hideki 287 Nancarrow, Conlon 53 Machaut, Guillaume de 9 Studies for Player Piano 267 MacGregor, Joanna 287 narrative 4, 7, 27–8, 189, 272, 293

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National Theatre 66, 72, 92, 95, 176, 305 Redgate, Roger 284 Neat, Timothy rhetoric 26, 29–30, 36, 117–18 Hallaig: the Poetry and Landscape of rhythm, see temporality Sorley MacLean (ﬁlm documentary) Rilke, Rainer Maria 9, 190, 192, 294, 302, 193–4 307 new complexity 286 ‘An Die Musik’ 192 New Music Manchester 279–80 Sonnets to Orpheus 192, 293–4 Nicholson, Norman 195 ritual 4, 27, 39, 206, 208–10, 300 Nilsson, Bo 283 Romanticism 4, 19, 23 Nono, Luigi 33, 133, 276, 280, 306 Royal Manchester College of Music 38, Canti Per Tredici 133, 137, 140–1, 306 124, 273 Il Canto Sospeso 133, 283 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 149, Nyman, Michael 65, 73, 79, 152, 206, 208, 288, 297 237, 244 Schenker, Heinrich 107, 113, 147 Ockeghem, Johannes Schlee, Albert 71, 89 Ut Heremita Solus 283 Schoenberg, Arnold 107, 254, 276, 280 Offence, The (ﬁlm) 71 Schubert, Franz 97, 234, 255 Ogdon, John 273 Die schöne Mullerin 7 Orff, Carl 276 Searle, Humphrey 277–9 organicism 107, 128 Three Movements for String Quartet 279 Pace, Ian 287 seascape 7 Paul Sacher Foundation 120, 132–3, 140, serialism 51, 121–2, 124, 140, 276, 265, 306, 308 278, 285 Pears, Peter 94 Shapey, Ralph 53 Peirce, Charles Sanders 97 Silbury Hill (Wiltshire) 175 Pendle Hill (Lancashire) 304 Skempton, Howard 286 Phillips, Tom 286 Skye, Isle of 176, 194 pibroch 15, 178, 180–7, 190, 192, 198, Snowman, Nicholas 94 201–2 Sound and Music, see SPNM Picasso, Pablo 233, 247 Sousa, John Philip 4 Pierrot Players 68–70 SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Pink Floyd 73 Music) 68, 73–4, 80–1, 87, 140, 278 pìobaireachd, see pibroch Steinecke, Wolfgang 276, 279–82 place 43, 175–205 Stevens, Bernard 277 postmodernism 62 Stockhausen, Karlheinz 127, 174, 276–7, Pousseur, Henri 276, 280, 283 279, 283, 291 Répons 279 Gesang der Jünglinge 73, 283 Princeton University 64, 147 Klavierstücke I–IV, V 279 Prins, Stefan Piano Piece No. XI 283 Generation Kill 291 Zeitmasse 30, 140, 283 procession 4, 11, 23, 31, 109–10, 115, 117, Stoppard, Tom 149, 153, 206–31 If You’re Glad I’ll be Frank 27 pulse, see temporality Stravinsky, Igor 17, 29, 47, 123, 141, 174, 276, 300 Raasay, Isle of 66, 156, 175–205, 299 Agon 33, 124 Raasay Bass Clarinet Course 200 Rite of Spring, The 99, 137, 300 Rainy, George 196, 201 Symphonies of Wind Instruments 147 Rands, Bernard structuralism 123 Action for Six 280 subjectivity 7, 27, 123–4, 126–9, 152, 207, Espressione IV 280 222–3, 299–300, 302 Ravel, Maurice 133 Sutcliffe, Alan 66

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Takahashi, Yuji 64 Wardour Castle Summer School 29, 64, temporality 1, 4, 11, 16, 26–62, 74, 78, 80, 204, 306 84, 96–100, 110, 127, 130, 147, 156, Warsaw Autumn Festival 273–4, 285 184, 206–31, 254–5, 259–61, 263, Watts, Sarah 200, 202 265–6, 290, 295 Webern, Anton 109, 140–1, 143, 276, 280 Thompson, D’Arcy 29, 149 Wellesz, Egon 279 time (musical), see temporality Whitesheet Hill (Wiltshire) 204 Tippett, Michael Wiegold, Peter 286 Concerto for Orchestra 33 Wigglesworth, Ryan 233, 247 Truffaut, François 32 Wildgans, Friedrich 280 Wilkinson, Marc Unit Delta Plus 66 Adagio with Variations 281 Wiltshire 30, 146, 175, 204 Varèse, Edgar 276 Wishart, Trevor 93 Vaughan Williams, Ralph 4, 133 Witten Festival 273–4, 285 A Norfolk Rhapsody 195 Wood, James 283 Woolrich, John 286 Wagner, Richard 17, 55 Wright, Tony 293 Parsifal 17 Siegfried 7 Zinovieff, Peter 28, 63–94, 153, 177, 308 Wallas, Graham 155 Partita for Unattended Computer 66 Wanamaker, Sam Tarantella 68 Executioner, The 71