Harrison Birtwistle Studies

Contents

• Preface David Beard, Kenneth Gloag and Nicholas Jones
• 1. 'Let it drift': Birtwistle's late-modernist music dramas Arnold Whittall
• 2. Mechanical song: Birtwistle's rhythmic imagination Philip Rupprecht
• 3. Before the mask: Birtwistle's electronic music collaborations with Peter Zinovieff Tom Hall
• 4. Birtwistle's 'eloquently gestural music' Kenneth Gloag
• 5. 'The life of my music': what the sketches tell us David Beard
• 6. The sound of Raasay: Birtwistle's Hebridean experience Nicholas Jones
• 7. Birtwistle and the labyrinthine processional Edward Venn
• 8. On taking a walk Aleksandra Vojcic
• 9. Gigue machine and other gigs: Birtwistle in Europe and beyond Mark Delaere
• 10. Of shadows and mirrors: reflections on Birtwistle in the new millennium Jonathan Cross
• Appendix: a selected inventory of Birtwistle manuscripts acquired by the British Library in 2013 David Beard.