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Absolute Music 62, 99 Accrington 4, 39, 74, 204–5, 304 Adès, Thomas Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09374-4 - Harrison Birtwistle Studies Edited by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones Index More information Index 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, 308 310 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09374-4 - Harrison Birtwistle Studies Edited by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones Index More information 311 Index 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09374-4 - Harrison Birtwistle Studies Edited by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones Index More information 312 Index 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09374-4 - Harrison Birtwistle Studies Edited by David Beard, Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones Index More information 313 Index 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.
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