The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett
Modern Times and Metaphysics
- Author: Clarke, David
A study by turns stimulating, challenging and inspiring —
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Contents
- Acknowledgements
- References to Tippett's scores and essays
- 1. Tippett and the 'world vision' of modernity
- 2. The significance of the concept 'image' in Tippett's musical thought: a perspective from Jung
- 3. Back to Nietzsche? Transformations of the dionysiac in The Midsummer Marriage and King Priam
- 4. Metaphysics in a cold climate: The Vision of Saint Augustine
- 5. 'Shall we ...? Affirm!' The ironic and the sublime in The Mask of Time
- 6. The meaning of 'lateness': mediations of work, self and society in Tippett's Triple Concerto
- 7. The golden bird and the porcelain bowl: Byzantium and the politics of artefacts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.