Derrick Puffett on Music
- Author: Puffett, Derrick
- Author: Puffett, Kathryn
no-one who loves music could fail to derive great pleasure and instruction from it. Puffett's knowledge of the repertoire was vast, and deep. His writing is always interesting, often vivid,... — More…
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Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- The Analyst Speaks: Editorial: in defence of formalism
- Schenker's 'Eroica'
- Liner and Programme Notes: Wagner: overtures and orchestral music
- Richard Strauss: Tod und VerklArung and Don Quixote
- Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica and Parergon
- The 'tawdriness' of Salome
- English Music: A Nietzschean libretto: Delius and the text for A Mass of Life
- In the garden of Fand: Arnold Bax and the 'Celtic Twilight'
- The fugue from Tippett's Second String Quartet
- Tippet and the retreat from mythology
- ...an analytical offering (A.G. 1992)...on Goehr's homage to Bach
- Russian and French Music: A graphic analysis of Musorgsky's 'Catacombs'
- Eight bars of Stravinsky: the Septet revisited
- Debussy's Ostinato Machine
- Opera: Siegried in the context of Wagner's operatic writing
- Schoeck's operas: a question of genre
- Some reflections on Literaturoper
- Berg and German opera
- Salome: an introduction
- Images of Salome
- Strauss's scenario for the 'Dance of the Seven Veils'
- Salome as music drama
- Elektra: beginnings
- The music of Elektra: some preliminary thoughts
- An introduction to Der Rosenkavalier
- Vienna: Transcription and recomposition
- the strange case of Zemlinsky's Maeterlinck songs
- A notational peculiarity in early Webern and its implications
- Gone with the summer wind
- or, what Webern lost
- 'Music that echoes within one' for a lifetime: Berg's reception of Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande
- Berg, Mahler and the Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6
- German music: 'Lass er die Musi, wo sie ist': pitch specificity in Strauss
- Bruckner's way: the Adagio of the Ninth Symphony
- Sources
- Index.