Sorabji: A Critical Celebration

List of contents

Contents: List of Illustrations; Part One, Discovery; Why Sorabji?, Paul Rapoport; Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji: An Introduction, Alistair Hinton; Sorabji: A Continuation, Paul Rapoport; A Few Recollections and Ruminations, Frank Holliday; "Could you just send me a list of his works?" Paul Rapoport; Part Two, The Prose; Sorabji's Letters to Heseltine, Kenneth Derus; Sorabji's Music Criticism, Nazlin Bhimani; Sorabji's Other Writings, Paul Rapoport; Part Three, The Music; Sorabji's Piano Music, Michael Habermann; Performing Opus clavicembalisticum - Geoffrey Douglas Madge with Paul Rapoport; Splendour upon Splendour: On Hearing Sorabji Play, Frank Holliday; Un tessuto d'esecuzioni: A Register of Performances of Sorabji's Works, Marc-André Roberge; Perigraph - To Remember Sorabji's Music: A Short Conclusion - Kenneth Derus; Appendix 1 - The Texts of Sorabji's Vocal Music, Paul Rapoport; Appendix 2 - The Recordings of Sorabji's Music - Paul Rapoport; Appendix 3 - The Sorabji Music Archive, Alistair Hinton; Bibliography; Index of Sorabji's Compositions; General Index.

Summary

The contributors to this text are musicologists, performers, composers and critics, treating a variety of subjects dealing with Sorabji's life, character and music.

Product details

• Assisted by: Paul Rapoport (Editor), Rapoport Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.12.1992
• EAN: 9780859679237
• ISBN: 978-0-85967-923-7
• No. of pages: 528
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Biography: arts & entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music