Coming soon. Frank Bridge: New Perspectives
- Editor: Clinch, Jonathan
Coming soon. Frank Bridge: New Perspectives
- Editor: Clinch, Jonathan
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A fresh and comprehensive study of Frank Bridge, exploring his modernism, overlooked works and transformative contributions to British music. Frank Bridge (1879-1941), student of Stanford and famously teacher of Benjamin Britten, was arguably one of the first British composers developing a radical modern musical language for his generation. The chapters in this collection situate Bridge in a broad intellectual context. They bring together new archival evidence that challenges existing characterisations of Bridge's life and works. Other chapters dealing with modernism address conceptual difficulties in defining his art, as well as problematic concepts in British music studies. The volume also offers new readings of one of Bridge's largest works, Oration, and one of his smallest, Sunset, while chapters on 'form' reveal new understandings of structural processes. The volume also addresses areas that have received little or no scholarly attention to date: song and theatre. Altogether, its focus pays tribute to what Arnold Whittall has described as Bridge's conjunction of 'classical and modernist tendencies' and his transformations of his own compositional technique into something that 'effectively challenged traditional, diatonically rooted ideals of classical coherence and integration'.
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- PART I Career 1 Bridge's Career in Context. Mark Amos 2 Bridge and Britten Revisited. Lucy Walker
- PART II Modernism 3 'The English Schönberg' - Frank Bridge and British Responses to Modernism, 1914- 1927. Philip Rupprecht 4 Bridge's Four Seasons - Rural Modernism and a Redefining of 'English Pastoral Music'. Jonathan Clinch
- PART III Readings 5 Mourning and Subjectivity in Oration. Matthew Riley 6 Topics, Tonality and the Aesthetics of Miniaturism in Bridge's musical 'poem', Sunset. Stephen Downes
- PART IV Form &Allegory 7 From Irony to Allegory: Form as Content in Frank Bridge. Ben Earle
- PART V Form & Tradition 8 Bridge, Cobbett and the Topos of 'Phantasy'. Jeremy Dibble 9 Bridge's Phantasm - between Concerto and Symphonic Poem. Julian Horton
- PART VI New Avenues 10 Bridge's Songs. Stephen Varcoe 11 Bridge's Theatre. Stephen Banfield
- PART VII Afterword 12 Connections. Fiona Richards 13 A Practical Modernism. Emily Kilpatrick Select
- Bibliography
- Index
