Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless Piano and Orchestra Study Score |
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| Composed by:
| Birtwistle, Harrison |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78454-531-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2019 |
| Publisher: | Boosey & Hawkes, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $52.00 |
Book Description:
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(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). This characteristically ever-evolving, single (29-minute) movement bears the remarkable title Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, which is that of a book of essays by Birtwistle's friend Robert Maxwell... The composer must not be "too precisein every part", a frequent failing of the post-Schoenbergian serial music on which Birtwistle cut his teeth. But his own imaginationhas never subordinated itself to mathematics, and certainly...
More Description(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). This characteristically ever-evolving, single (29-minute) movement bears the remarkable title Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, which is that of a book of essays by Birtwistle's friend Robert Maxwell... The composer must not be "too precisein every part", a frequent failing of the post-Schoenbergian serial music on which Birtwistle cut his teeth. But his own imaginationhas never subordinated itself to mathematics, and certainly doesn't in this turbulent, scherzo-like, brilliantly multilayered score (a melodic thread always on hand to lead us through the maze of invention)... the soloist-and-tutti relationship, Birtwistle's abiding concern, went into a dazzling new dimension.