Michael Hooper

The Music of David Lumsdaine (eBook, ePUB)

Kelly Ground to Cambewarra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Australian by birth but a longtime resident of Great Britain, David Lumsdaine (b.1931) is central to both Australian and British modernism. During the early 1970s Australian musical modernism was at its height. Lumsdaine and his Australian contemporaries were engaged with practices from multiple places, producing music that displays the attributes of their disparate influences; in so doing they formed a new conception of what it meant to be an Australian composer. The period is similarly important in Britain, for it saw the rise to prominence of composers such as Birtwistle, Davies, Goehr, Gilbert, Wood, Cardew and many others who were Lumsdaine's contemporaries, colleagues and friends. Hooper presents here a series of analyses of Lumsdaine's compositions, focusing on works written between 1966 and 1980. At the early end of this period is Kelly Ground, for solo piano. One of Lumsdaine's first acknowledged works, Kelly Ground connects explicitly with the music of high modernism, employing ideas about temporality as espoused by Ligeti, Stockhausen and Boulez, to form a new ritual for the (now mythical) Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Hooper places Lumsdaine's music in the context of Australian and British avant-gardes, and reveals its elegance, lyricism and technical virtuosity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317023463
• Artikelnr.: 44863963

Autorenporträt

Australian musicologist Michael Hooper was born in Sydney and studied performance at the University of Sydney (BMus Honours, MMus). His PhD, on the music of David Lumsdaine, is from the University of York. From 2008 he was based in London, where he was a Research fellow and Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music. Hooper is currently an ARC-funded Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
David Lumsdaine's Kelly Ground
'I would love to know how it all goes together' or 'free as a bird': improvisatory flights, indeterminacy, and two works by David Lumsdaine
Labyrinths and journeys
Hagoromo - the melody of a bell the harmony of a flute
David Lumsdaine, modernism and Bach: Ruhe sanfte, sanfte ruh' and Mandala 3
Reconfigurations in the fracture of Lumsdaine's Cambewarra: re-experiencing a territory
Postscript
Bibliography
Discography
Index.