Book contents
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Music Since 1900
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Deepest Questions at the Heart of Things’
- Part I From Manchester to Hoy, 1934–1970
- Chronology
- 1 Maxwell Davies, Composer
- 2 Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 1
- 3 Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27
- 4 Nikos Skalkottas: Sonatina and Tender Melody for Cello and Piano
- 5 The Young British Composer
- 6 Indian Classical Music
- 7 Musical Life in Italy
- 8 Problems of a British Composer Today
- 9 St Michael – Sonata for Seventeen Wind Instruments
- 10 Prolation
- 11 Realizing the ‘Aural Vision’ of Prolation
- 12 Composing Music for School Use
- 13 First Fantasia on an ‘In Nomine’ of John Taverner
- 14 Sinfonia
- 15 Echoes of the Past in the Present
- 16 In Defence of Compositional Technique
- 17 The Young Composer in America
- 18 Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s ‘In Nomine’
- 19 Seven In Nomine
- 20 Where Our Colleges Fail
- 21 Musical Innovation
- 22 Antechrist
- 23 Sets or Series
- 24 Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
- 25 Time Manipulations and Immoral Realizations
- 26 Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
- 27 St Thomas Wake
- 28 Worldes Blis
- 29 Eight Songs for a Mad King
- 30 Vesalii Icones
- 31 The Orchestra is Becoming a Museum
- 32 Revelation and Fall
- 33 Taverner
- Part II From Hoy to Sanday, 1971–1997
- Part III Sanday, 1998–2016
- Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
6 - Indian Classical Music
from Part I - From Manchester to Hoy, 1934–1970
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2017
Book contents
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Music Since 1900
- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘The Deepest Questions at the Heart of Things’
- Part I From Manchester to Hoy, 1934–1970
- Chronology
- 1 Maxwell Davies, Composer
- 2 Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 1
- 3 Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27
- 4 Nikos Skalkottas: Sonatina and Tender Melody for Cello and Piano
- 5 The Young British Composer
- 6 Indian Classical Music
- 7 Musical Life in Italy
- 8 Problems of a British Composer Today
- 9 St Michael – Sonata for Seventeen Wind Instruments
- 10 Prolation
- 11 Realizing the ‘Aural Vision’ of Prolation
- 12 Composing Music for School Use
- 13 First Fantasia on an ‘In Nomine’ of John Taverner
- 14 Sinfonia
- 15 Echoes of the Past in the Present
- 16 In Defence of Compositional Technique
- 17 The Young Composer in America
- 18 Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s ‘In Nomine’
- 19 Seven In Nomine
- 20 Where Our Colleges Fail
- 21 Musical Innovation
- 22 Antechrist
- 23 Sets or Series
- 24 Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
- 25 Time Manipulations and Immoral Realizations
- 26 Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
- 27 St Thomas Wake
- 28 Worldes Blis
- 29 Eight Songs for a Mad King
- 30 Vesalii Icones
- 31 The Orchestra is Becoming a Museum
- 32 Revelation and Fall
- 33 Taverner
- Part II From Hoy to Sanday, 1971–1997
- Part III Sanday, 1998–2016
- Bibliography
- Book part
- Index
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- Peter Maxwell Davies, Selected Writings , pp. 24 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017