Peter Maxwell Davies studies /

Gloag, Kenneth [ed.]

Peter Maxwell Davies studies / edited by Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xv, 259 p. : ill., music. ; 26 cm. - Cambridge composer studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A dark voice from within" : Peter Maxwell Davies and modern times / Arnold Whittall -- The writings of a young British composer : Peter Maxwell Davies in the late 1950s / Nicholas Jones -- Thematic drama in early Peter Maxwell Davies : from Op.1 to the First Taverner fantasia / Philip Rupprecht -- Taverner : an interpretation / David Beard -- The ghost in the machine : sonata form in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies / Rodney Lister -- Questions of form and genre in Peter Maxwell Davies's First symphony / Kenneth Gloag -- Peter Maxwell Davies's sources : reflections on origins, meanings, and significance / Richard McGregor -- Setting it in stone : the problems of an "Urtext" in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies / Peter Owens -- The composer-performer relationship in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies / Grenville Hancox -- Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington : the composer as teacher / Philip Grange --

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Davies, Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016 --Criticism and interpretation.

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