TY - BOOK ID - 85473579 TI - British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries PY - 2015 SN - 1316308146 1316321525 1316328201 1316324869 1316331547 1316318168 1139033352 0521844487 1316649520 1316287335 9781316318164 9781139033350 9781316331545 9780521844482 9781316649527 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Music KW - Composers KW - Songwriters KW - Musicians KW - Art music KW - Art music, Western KW - Classical music KW - Musical compositions KW - Musical works KW - Serious music KW - Western art music KW - Western music (Western countries) KW - History and criticism. KW - New Music Manchester. KW - Manchester Group KW - "New Music Manchester" Group UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85473579 AB - British Musical Modernism explores the works of eleven key composers to reveal the rapid shifts of expression and technique that transformed British art music in the post-war period. Responding to radical avant-garde developments in post-war Europe, the Manchester Group composers - Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Harrison Birtwistle - and their contemporaries assimilated the serial-structuralist preoccupations of mid-century internationalism to an art grounded in resurgent local traditions. In close readings of some thirty-five scores, Philip Rupprecht traces a modernism suffused with the formal elegance of the 1950s, the exuberant theatricality of the 1960s, and - in the works of David Bedford and Tim Souster - the pop, minimalist, and live-electronic directions of the early 1970s. Setting music-analytic insights against a broader social-historical backdrop, Rupprecht traces a British musical modernism that was at once a collective artistic endeavor, and a sounding myth of national identity. ER -