Elisabeth Lutyens and Edward Clark - The Orchestration of Progress in British Twentieth-Century Music

"Combining analyses of modernist concert and stage music by Elisabeth Lutyens with those of her audiovisual scores, and contextualising Lutyens and Edward Clark's biographies within international developments in dodecaphonic music and music-making, this book will speak to a wide audience interested in British and European twentieth-century music"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Conducting personae. Clark as a conductor, 1910-1962; 2. Composing influence. Lutyens's compositional beginnings, 1938-1961; 3. Crafting music. Lutyens's scores for film and television, 1944-1975; 4. Collaborating to control. Clark and Lutyens as administrators and organisers, 1939-1960; 5. Completing the lives. Lutyens after Clark, 1962- 983; Afterword; Bibliography; Main archives; Index.

About the author

Annika Forkert is a musicologist and Lecturer in Music at the Royal Northern College of Music. She publishes on post-tonal, modern, and audio-visual British music with a focus on Elisabeth Lutyens, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Rebecca Clarke; and on microtonal music. Her research appears in English and German.

Product details

• Authors: Annika Forkert, Annika (Royal Northern College of Music Forkert
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009337359
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0933735-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Music in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; English, MUSIC / History & Criticism, 20th Century, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Music reviews & criticism, Music reviews and criticism, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Classical style, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Art music, orchestral and formal music, For higher / tertiary / university education