Accompanied Voices
Poets on Composers: From Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2015
234 pages
978-1-78204-502-1 (ISBN)
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Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, but also a moving commentary by one set of practisingartists on the work of another.
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Content
- Frontcover
- Contents
- Neil Powell: 'Music'
- Introduction
- Dana Gioia: 'Lives of the Great Composers'
- Thomas Tallis (1505-85)
- Charles Tomlinson: 'Spem in Alium'
- William Byrd: 'Ye Sacred Muses'
- William Byrd (?1543-1623)
- Sidney Keyes: 'William Byrd'
- Edward Storey: 'William Byrd's Virginal Music from My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591)
- John Dowland (?1563-1626)
- Hal Summers: 'O Dowland, Old John Dowland'
- Pauline Stainer: 'Mrs John Dowland'
- N. S. Thompson: 'John Dowland on the Lute'
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
- Robin Fulton Macpherson: 'Morning Words'
- Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
- Stuart Henson: 'Harmonic'
- Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: 'Orlando Gibbons'
- John Greening: 'The Lute at Hawthornden Castle'
- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
- Alistair Elliot: 'Buxtehude's Daughter'
- Henry Purcell (1659-95)
- John Dryden: 'An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell'
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 'Lines to W.L'
- François Couperin (1668-1733)
- John Heath-Stubbs: 'Couperin at the Keyboard'
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
- Alison Brackenbury: 'Yesterday Vivaldi visited me .'
- Ruth Fainlight: 'Dixit Dominus'
- Margaret Speak: 'Vivaldi's Bow'
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
- Arthur Symons: 'On an Air of Rameau'
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Douglas Dunn: 'Loch Music'
- Norman MacCaig: 'Pibroch: The Harp Tree'
- Rowan Williams: 'Bach for the Cello'
- John Heath-Stubbs: 'Homage to J. S. Bach'
- Ivor Gurney: 'Bach and the Sentry'
- Lotte Kramer: 'Fugue'
- John Gohorry: 'Bach's Journal for George Erdmann'
- Charles Tomlinson: 'If Bach had been a Beekeeper'
- William Scammell: 'A Touch of the Goldbergs'
- George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
- Geoffrey Hill: 'G. F. Handel, Opus 6'
- Alison Brackenbury: 'Writing Rinaldo'
- John Byrom: Epigram
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
- Basil Bunting: From 'Briggflatts'
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-87)
- Mick Imlah: 'Scottish Play'
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- William Scammell: 'Small Fanfare for H. C. Robbins Landon'
- Thomas Holcroft: 'To Haydn'
- John Gohorry: 'A fiat for Joseph Haydn'
- Tony Roberts: 'After the Celibacy of Summer'
- Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
- John Heath-Stubbs: 'Mozart and Salieri'
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91)
- Seán Street: 'K595 (Mozart)'
- Anne Stevenson: 'Kosovo Surprised by Mozart'
- Elizabeth Jennings: 'Mozart's Horn Concertos'
- Alistair Elliot: 'Exsultate, Jubilate'
- Michael Donaghy: 'Cadenza'
- Sheenagh Pugh: 'Mozart Playing Billiards'
- Gregory Warren Wilson: 'The Unsung Mechanisms'
- Peter Sansom: 'K563'
- Thomas Hardy: 'Lines to a Movement in Mozart'
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Gillian Allnutt: 'Barclays Bank and Lake Baikal'
- R. S. Thomas: 'Sonata'
- Matthew Arnold: from 'Epilogue to Lessing's Laocoön'
- Anne Stevenson: 'Arioso Dolente'
- Ted Hughes: 'Opus 131'
- Alan Jenkins: 'Für Elise'
- Oliver Reynolds: 'The Composer's Ear-Trumpet'
- Norman MacCaig: 'Concerto'
- Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
- Floyd Skloot: 'Paganini and the Powers of Darkness'
- John Field (1782-1837)
- Gerard Smyth: 'John Field'
- John Greening: 'Field'
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- George Szirtes: 'Beautiful Place'
- Gillian Clarke: 'The Piano'
- Pauline Stainer: 'Music for Invasive Surgery'
- Bernard O'Donoghue: 'Claire, Playing Schubert'
- Humphrey Clucas: 'Winterreise'
- Frances Cornford: 'For M.S.: Singing Frühlingsglaube in 1945'
- Christopher Reid: from 'The Unfinished'
- Hector Berlioz (1803-69)
- Maxine Kumin: 'Rehearsing for the Final Reckoning in Boston'
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47)
- Floyd Skloot: 'Mendelssohn at Thirty-Eight'
- Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49)
- Philip Hobsbaum: 'Chopin in London'
- Donald Davie: 'In Chopin's Garden'
- Robert Schumann (1810-56)
- David Holbrook: 'Dichterliebe'
- Marcia Menter: 'Schumann's Fantasy for Piano in C Major'
- Dannie Abse: 'The Maestro'
- Ivor Gurney: 'R. Schumann'
- Brian Biddle: 'Tone Row'
- Franz Liszt (1811-86)
- Peter Redgrove: 'Pianism'
- Roy Fuller: 'Benediction'
- Gwen Harwood: 'A Music Lesson'
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
- John Smith: 'Death at the Opera'
- Martin Bell: 'Verdi at Eighty'
- Richard Wagner (1813-83)
- Dannie Abse: 'Wagner'
- Patricia Beer: 'Brunhild'
- Anton Bruckner (1824-96)
- Oliver Reynolds: 'Anton Bruckner: Motet for Men's Choir'
- Peter Porter: 'May, 1945'
- Bedrich Smetana (1824-84)
- Nigel Forde: 'Katerina Smetana'
- Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
- Roy Fuller: 'Brahms Peruses the Score of Siegfried'
- Peter Porter: 'A Brahms Intermezzo'
- John Fuller: from 'Brahms in Thun'
- Penelope Shuttle: 'Concert, Southbank Centre'
- Marcia Menter: 'Sonata for Violin and Piano, Opus 78'
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
- John Heath-Stubbs: 'Camille Saint-Saëns'
- Ruth Fainlight: 'Softly Awakes my Heart .'
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
- Richard Kell: 'The Butterfly Hears Tchaikovsky'
- Oliver Reynolds: 'Old Usher'
- Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
- D. M. Thomas: 'Music Student, First Violinist'
- Michael Longley: 'Sycamore'
- Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
- Edmund Blunden: 'A Quartet'
- Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- Norman Nicholson: 'For the Grieg Centenary'
- Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
- Charles Causley: 'Fauré'
- Floyd Skloot: 'Fauré in Paris, 1924'
- Penelope Shuttle: 'Après Un Rêve'
- Leos Janácek (1854-1928)
- Martyn Crucefix: 'Diary of One Who Disappeared'
- Helen Ashley: 'On a Farm Track, Northumberland'
- Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
- Robert Saxton: 'The Nightingale Broadcasts'
- Ivor Gurney: 'To the City of Worcester'
- Conor O'Callaghan: 'The Dream of Edward Elgar'
- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
- Mary Jo Salter: 'Libretto'
- Gerard Smyth: 'Puccini'
- Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
- Edward Storey: 'Hugo Wolf at Traunkirchen'
- Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
- Thomas Kinsella: from 'Her Vertical Smile'
- Maurice Lindsay: 'Das Lied von der Erde'
- Michael Longley: 'Kindertotenlieder'
- Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
- Floyd Skloot: 'Delius & Fenby'
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- Carol Rumens: 'The Submerged Cathedral'
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- Peter Porter: 'Covent Garden in the Sixties'
- Ivor Gurney: 'Serenade'
- Vernon Scannell: 'Indian Summer'
- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
- Gillian Allnutt: 'Sibelius'
- Tony Roberts: 'Barkbröd'
- Tony Roberts: 'Barkbröd' 110 Marcia Menter: 'Sibelius's Fifth Symphony in the Dead of Winter'
- Robin Fulton Macpherson: From 'The Cold Musician'
- Erik Satie (1866-1925)
- Gillian Clarke: 'Erik Satie and the Blackbird'
- Amy Beach (1867-1944)
- Frances Nagle: 'The Composer Amy Beach'
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
- Matt Simpson: 'The Death Has Occurred .'
- Maura Dooley: 'The Lark Ascending'
- Ivor Gurney: 'To R. W. Vaughan Williams'
- Matt Simpson: 'Vaughan Williams' Lark Ascending'
- Ursula Vaughan Williams: 'To the Man who Wanted a Symphony to Have a Happy Ending'
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
- Richard Terrill: 'Coming Late to Rachmaninov'
- Martin Seymour-Smith: 'Rachmaninov'
- Tony Roberts: 'The Isle of the Dead'
- Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
- Anthony Thwaite: 'One of the Planets'
- John Greening: 'Holst'
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
- Jo Shapcott: 'Shapcott's Variation .'
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- Gregory Warren Wilson: 'On Playing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand'
- Floyd Skloot: 'Ravel at Swim'
- Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
- Peter Porter: 'The Pines of Rome'
- Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
- Roy Fuller: 'On Hearing Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra'
- Helen Ivory: 'The King of Swords'
- George Szirtes: 'Bartók'
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Terence Tiller: 'Petrushka (Stravinsky)'
- Siegfried Sassoon: 'Concert-Interpretation'
- Edwin Morgan: 'Venice April 1971'
- Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
- John Gohorry: 'Musicians Rehearsing al fresco'
- Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
- Dermot O'Byrne: 'A Girl's Music'
- Anton Webern (1883-1945)
- Nathaniel Tarn: 'For the Death of Anton Webern Particularly'
- Gabriel Levin: 'After Webern'
- Robert Crawford: 'The Music Cleaner'
- Alban Berg (1885-1935)
- Peter Jones: 'Alban Berg's Violin Concerto'
- George Butterworth (1885-1916)
- Andrew Motion: 'Rhapsody'
- Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)
- Helen Ashley: 'Frances Dancing with Martinu'
- Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
- Ivor Gurney: 'Masterpiece'
- N. S. Thompson: 'Gurney: At the Front'
- Charles Tomlinson: 'To a Christian Concerning Ivor Gurney'
- Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
- Gareth Reeves: from 'Nuncle Music'
- Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine) (1894-1930)
- Robert Nichols: 'Elegy for Philip Heseltine'
- Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
- Stewart Conn: 'Playing Cards with Poulenc'
- Aaron Copland (1900-90)
- Richard Terrill: 'Appalachian Spring'
- Gerald Finzi (1901-56)
- Neil Powell: 'Finzi's Orchard'
- Michael Tippett (1905-98)
- Martyn Crucefix: 'Listening to Tippett Twice'
- Robin Fulton Macpherson: 'To an English Composer'
- Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-75)
- Joanna Boulter: 'Prelude'
- Edward Storey: 'A Postscript to Shostakovich's Reply'
- Maura Dooley: '1943'
- Charles Tomlinson: 'Ode to Dmitri Shostakovich'
- Tony Roberts: 'Sausage'
- Olivier Messiaen (1908-92)
- Fiona Sampson: 'Messiaen's Piano'
- John Mole: 'Messiaen'
- Samuel Barber (1910-81)
- John Matthias: 'A Note on Barber's Adagio'
- John Greening: 'American Music'
- John Cage (1912-92)
- Alistair Elliot: 'The Old Man comes out with an Opinion'
- Untitled
- Benjamin Britten (1913-76)
- Ronald Duncan: 'Lament for Ben'
- Kevin Crossley-Holland: 'The Aldeburgh Band'
- Neil Powell: 'Borodins and Vodka'
- Alfred Corn: 'Coventry'
- Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94)
- David Scott: 'Playing Lutoslawski in Grasmere Church'
- György Ligeti (1923-2006)
- Gabriel Levin: 'Ground Offensive'
- Harrison Birtwistle (b.1934)
- Alice Kouvanas: 'After The Minotaur'
- Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934)
- George Mackay Brown: 'Peter Maxwell Davies: 60'
- Arvo Pärt (b.1935)
- Gillian Allnutt: 'Arvo Pärt in Concert .'
- Epilogue
- Gwen Harwood: 'New Music'
- Christopher Reid: 'Klangfarbe'
- David Harsent: 'Tinnitus'
- Elizabeth Jennings: 'A Music Sought'
- Douglas Dunn: 'The Concert'
- John Ash: 'The Other Great Composers'
- James Reeves: 'Knew the Master'
- Anne Stevenson: 'Improvisation'
- Ursula Vaughan Williams: 'Silence and Music'
- Composers
- Poets
- Acknowledgements
- Index of first lines
- Index of titles
