Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Piano and Orchestra Study Score (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784545314)

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). This characteristically ever-evolving, single (29-minute) movement bears the remarkable title Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, which is that of a book of essays by Birtwistle's friend Robert Maxwell... The composer must not be "too precisein every part", a frequent failing of the post-Schoenbergian serial music on which Birtwistle cut his teeth. But his own imaginationhas never subordinated itself to mathematics, and certainly doesn't in this turbulent, scherzo-like, brilliantly multilayered score (a melodic thread always on hand to lead us through the maze of invention)... the soloist-and-tutti relationship, Birtwistle's abiding concern, went into a dazzling new dimension.

Author: Harrison Birtwistle
ISBN-10: 1784545317
ISBN-13: 9781784545314
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Inc
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2019
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.01lbs
Size: 11.00h x 9.00w x 0.20d