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The Cambridge Companion to Michael Tippett
Cambridge Companions to Music
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
References to Tippett’s scores and note on music examples
Chronology of Tippett’s life and career Jonathan Rees
Part I Contexts and concepts
1 Tippett and twentieth-century polarities
2 Tippett and the English traditions
3 ‘Things that chiefly interest ME’: Tippett and early music
4 Tippett and politics: the 1930s and beyond
5 ‘Coming out to oneself’: encodings of homosexual identity from the First String Quartet to The Heart’s Assurance
6 Between image and imagination: Tippett’s creative process
Part II Works and genres
7 Tippett’s ‘great divide’: before and after King Priam
8 ‘Symphonic music in our modern times’: Tippett and the symphony
9 Tippett and the concerto: from Double to Triple
10 The four piano sonatas: past and present tensions
11 Formal archetypes, revered masters and singing nightingales: Tippett’s string quartets
12 Tippett’s operatic world: from The Midsummer Marriage to New Year
13 Words and music
Chronological list of works
Select bibliography
Index
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