Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T09:41:52.723Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Dialectics in Peter Maxwell Davies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Michael Chanan
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

One of the persistent features of Peter Maxwell Davies's music has been the use of musical material borrowed from medieval and renaissance sources. His interest in the music of this period has not of course been in its abstract musical forms, which represent aesthetic ideals now unattainable, but in themes of faith and belief which it can be used to symbolise for us. Like Adrian Leverkiihn, the composer-hero of Thomas Mann's Dr. Faustus, Davies is concerned with the dilemma that in a godless world, to create God after one's own image is to call up the devil.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 90 , Autumn 1969 , pp. 11 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The music examples are printed on pp. 16–21