| Descript |
x, 318 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm |
| Content |
text txt |
| Media |
unmediated n |
| Carrier |
volume nc |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I. Introduction -- Peter Dickinson at Eighty / Stephen Banfield -- II. Some Autobiography -- Three Musical Careers -- III. American Apprenticeship -- New York, 1958 -- 61 -- IV. Writings about Music -- 1. Satie -- Stein -- Cummings -- Thomson -- Berners -- Cage -- 2. Charles Ives and Aaron Copland -- 3. Lord Berners: A British Avant-gardist -- 4. African American Influences on British Composers -- 5. American Concerto -- 6. Style Modulation as a Compositional Technique -- 7. Bernarr Rainbow: Music Education's Pioneer Historian -- 8. Wilfrid Mellers at Ninety -- 9. Two Ives Reviews -- 10. Remembering David Munrow -- 11. Two Satie Reviews -- 12. Putting on John Cage's Musicircus -- 13. Lennox Berkeley: A Golden Decade -- V. Literary Connections -- 1. Emily Dickinson and Composers -- 2. T. S. Eliot, Stravinsky, Britten and Rawsthorne -- 3. Ruth Pitter: A Centenary Tribute -- 4. Meeting W. H. Auden -- 5. Meeting Philip Larkin -- VI. Peter Dickinson on his own Music -- 1. Directions of a Decade -- 2. Nationalism is Not Enough -- 3. From Organ Loft to Rags and Blues -- VII. Interviews and a Memoir -- 1. Conversations with Erik Satie -- 2. Meriel and Peter Dickinson with Richard Baker -- 3. Peter Dickinson with James Jolly -- 4. Memoir / Meriel Dickinson -- VIII. Travels -- 1. On the Trail of Samuel Barber in 1981 -- 2. Travels in America and Mexico 1986 -- Appendixes -- 1. Peter Dickinson: Chronological List of Works -- 2. Peter and Meriel Dickinson: Discography. |
| ISBN |
9781783271061 |
|
178327106X |
|
