The Music of Frank Bridge
Seiten
2015
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-1-78327-059-0 (ISBN)
The Boydell Press (Verlag)
978-1-78327-059-0 (ISBN)
A detailed and long-overdue study of Frank Bridge's music and its socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts
The English composer, violist, and conductor Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a student of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, was one of the first modernists in British music, developing the most radical and lastingly modern musical languageof his generation. Bridge was also one of the most accomplished British composers of chamber music in the twentieth century. After the lyrical romanticism of the early period, a notable expansion of style can be observed as earlyas 1913, leading eventually to the radical language of the Piano Sonata and Third String Quartet, drawing on influences such as Debussy, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School composers.However, Bridge became frustrated that his later, more complex music was often ignored in favour of his earlier 'Edwardian' works; this neglect of his mature music contributed to the growing obscurity into which his music and reputation fell in his last years and afterhis death. Symptomatically, Bridge is still often remembered primarily for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten, who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the 'Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge' (1937).This book, the first detailed, and long-overdue, study of Bridge's music and its relevant socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts, encourages a more thorough understanding of Bridge's style and development and will appeal to readers with interests in British music, early twentieth-century modernism and post-romanticism as well as genre and style.
FABIAN HUSS is Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol and has published widely on British music (particularly EJ Moeran), with an emphasis on cultural history, and aesthetic and analytical issues.
The English composer, violist, and conductor Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a student of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, was one of the first modernists in British music, developing the most radical and lastingly modern musical languageof his generation. Bridge was also one of the most accomplished British composers of chamber music in the twentieth century. After the lyrical romanticism of the early period, a notable expansion of style can be observed as earlyas 1913, leading eventually to the radical language of the Piano Sonata and Third String Quartet, drawing on influences such as Debussy, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School composers.However, Bridge became frustrated that his later, more complex music was often ignored in favour of his earlier 'Edwardian' works; this neglect of his mature music contributed to the growing obscurity into which his music and reputation fell in his last years and afterhis death. Symptomatically, Bridge is still often remembered primarily for privately tutoring Benjamin Britten, who later championed his teacher's music and paid homage to him in the 'Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge' (1937).This book, the first detailed, and long-overdue, study of Bridge's music and its relevant socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts, encourages a more thorough understanding of Bridge's style and development and will appeal to readers with interests in British music, early twentieth-century modernism and post-romanticism as well as genre and style.
FABIAN HUSS is Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol and has published widely on British music (particularly EJ Moeran), with an emphasis on cultural history, and aesthetic and analytical issues.
Introduction
Background, Royal College of Music and Early Works
First Maturity
Transitional Period
Bridge's Post-Tonal Idiom; Piano Sonata and Third String Quartet
Interlude: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Progressive Works, 1927-1932
Interlude: Benjamin Britten
Last Years
List of Works
Bibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.9.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | 108 line illus. |
Verlagsort | Woodbridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 1 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
ISBN-10 | 1-78327-059-4 / 1783270594 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78327-059-0 / 9781783270590 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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