Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings

Contents

• Part I . From Manchester to Hoy, 1934-1970:
• 1. Maxwell Davies, composer;
• 2. Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 1;
• 3. Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27;
• 4. Nikos Skalkottas: Sonatina and Tender Melody for Cello and Piano;
• 5. The young British composer;
• 6. Indian classical music;
• 7. Musical life in Italy;
• 8. Problems of a British composer today;
• 9. St Michael - Sonata for Seventeen Wind Instruments;
• 10. Prolation;
• 11. Realizing the 'aural vision' of Prolation;
• 12. Composing music for school use;
• 13. First Fantasia on an 'In Nomine' of John Taverner;
• 14. Sinfonia;
• 15. Echoes of the past in the present;
• 16. In defence of compositional technique;
• 17. The young composer in America;
• 18. Second Fantasia on John Taverner's 'In Nomine';
• 19. Seven In Nomine;
• 20. Where our colleges fail;
• 21. Musical innovation;
• 22. Antechrist;
• 23. Sets or series;
• 24. Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie;
• 25. Manipulating time and immoral realizations;
• 26. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire;
• 27. St Thomas Wake;
• 28. Worldes Blis;
• 29. Eight Songs for a Mad King;
• 30. Vesalii Icones;
• 31. The orchestra is becoming a museum;
• 32. Revelation and Fall;
• 33. Taverner;
• Part II . From Hoy to Sanday, 1971-1997:
• 34. Two early Orkney works;
• 35. 'Pax Orcadiensis';
• 36. Benjamin Britten: a tribute;
• 37. Symphony;
• 38. Safer 'out' than in;
• 39. The Lighthouse;
• 40. Symphony No. 2;
• 41. Michael Tippett: a tribute;
• 42. Darkening our civilization;
• 43. St Magnus festival - one decade on;
• 44. Symphony No. 4;
• 45. The Arts Council and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra;
• 46. London's needs for all its orchestras;
• 47. Cheltenham Music Festival: a tribute;
• 48. Remembering Darmstadt;
• 49. Symphony No. 6;
• 50. The late Strathclyde Concertos;
• 51. The influence of Aboriginal music;
• 52. Renaissance architecture, symphonic precedents and historical resonances;
• 53. Notes from a cold climate;
• Part III . Sanday, 1998-2016:
• 54. A Roma, con amore;
• 55. Mr Emmet Takes a Walk;
• 56. Music to our ears;
• 57. A composer's point of view (I): on music, mathematics and magic squares;
• 58. A composer's point of view (II): on parody,
• references and meaning;
• 59. A composer's point of view (III): on religion;
• 60. A composer's point of view (IV): on the composition of 'light' and 'serious' music;
• 61. Symphony No. 7;
• 62. The Naxos Quartets;
• 63. Studying with Petrassi;
• 64. Master of the Queen's music;
• 65. Will serious music become extinct?;
• 66. A disorientating ruckus;
• 67. Bearing witness;
• 68. A conducting lesson with Leonard Bernstein;
• 69. Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!);
• 70. Beacons of light: in praise of music's benevolence;
• 71. A symphony for troubled times;
• 72. In search of Borromini;
• 73. Indivisible parameters and spirit-stirring amalgams;
• 74. Calling us to our sleep.