Peter Maxwell Davies Studies

Contents

• Preface
• 1. 'A dark voice from within': Peter Maxwell Davies and modern times ARNOLD WHITTALL
• 2. The writings of a young British composer: Peter Maxwell Davies in the 1950s NICHOLAS JONES
• 3. Thematic drama in early Peter Maxwell Davies: from Op. 1 to the First Taverner Fantasia PHILIP RUPPRECHT
• 4. Taverner: an interpretation DAVID BEARD
• 5. The ghost in the machine: sonata form in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies RODNEY LISTER
• 6. Questions of form and genre in Peter Maxwell Davies's First Symphony KENNETH GLOAG
• 7. Peter Maxwell Davies's sources: reflections on origins, meanings and significance RICHARD McGregor
• 8. Setting it in stone: the problems of an Urtext in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies PETER OWENS
• 9. The composer-performer relationship in the music of Peter Maxwell Davies GRENVILLE HANCOX
• 10. Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington: the composer as teacher PHILIP GRANGE
• Appendices: Appendix I: Peter Maxwell Davies's articles, lectures, interviews and radio broadcasts NICHOLAS JONES
• Appendix II: Source material used in the works of Peter Maxwell Davies, 1957-2006 Richard McGregor.