1980s
A32=Anthony Gilbert
A32=David Beard
A32=David Charlton
A32=Edward Venn
A32=Julia Bardsley
A32=Melinda Maxwell
A32=Professor Philip E. Rupprecht
A32=Rebecca Thumpston
A32=Simon Speare
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
analysis
anthology
art
art history
automatic-update
B01=David Charlton
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AVGC6
Category=AVH
Category=AVLA
composition
contemporary music
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
music
PA=Available
Price_€100 and above
PS=Active
Simon Holt
softlaunch
unique
writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781783272235
- Weight: 982g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Bringing together well-known writers with composers and performers, this volume gives a complete overview of Holt's creative work up to 2015.
British composer Simon Holt (b. 1958) has been a leading presence in contemporary music since the early 1980s and Kites. His output is diverse, comprising chamber music, concertos for diverse instruments, songs, piano musicand opera. Holt is a composer who demands unusual commitment from his interpreters - the intricate sound-worlds he creates often contain complex, rich textures, offset by 'still centres' - for the purpose of making music which speaks with extraordinary power.
Bringing together well-known writers with composers and performers, this volume gives a complete overview of Holt's creative work up to 2015 and Fool is hurt. It uses a variety of approaches to help readers, listeners and players to find ways into the pieces and to understand the influence of visual art and poetry on Holt's work. Colour illustrations, music examples, tables and sketch facsimiles offer a rounded impression of Holt's inspiration and thought to date. Also included are a wide-ranging conversation between Simon Holt and the artist Julia Bardsley, and a text by the conductor Thierry Fischer. The volume also offers the first detailed catalogue of Holt's compositions, drawn up together with the composer. It reveals that the last twenty years have seen no slowing-up in his rate of creative production, notwithstanding that the nature of his writing has changed during this time.
DAVID CHARLTON is Professor Emeritus of Music History, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Contributors: JULIA BARDSLEY, DAVID BEARD, DAVID CHARLTON, THIERRY FISCHER, ANTHONY GILBERT, STEPHEN GUTMAN, MELINDA MAXWELL, RICHARD MCGREGOR, STEPH POWER, PHILIP RUPPRECHT, SIMON SPEARE, REBECCA THUMPSTON, EDWARD VENN
