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SOUND JUDGEMENT: PIERS HELLAWELL IN INTERVIEW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2014

Bernard Hughes
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Abstract

Piers Hellawell is Professor of Composition at Queen's University, Belfast and one of the United Kingdom's most interesting and thoughtful composers. In this interview he speaks about his compositional interests and preoccupations through a discussion of his works and technical features such as his ‘escalator series’. He also speaks about his concerns for composition as a discipline in universities and schools.

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RESEARCH ARTICLES
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Tempo , Volume 68 , Issue 270 , October 2014 , pp. 48 - 56
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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References

1 Piers Hellawell, interview with the author, London, 20 October 2013.

2 Stephen Johnson, liner note to Sound Carvings. Metronome, MET CD 1029, 1998.

3 Piers Hellawell, ‘Who are you like?’ – A Blog about Influence, <http://www.piershellawell.com/writings.asp?ARTICLE=8> accessed 25 October 2013.

4 Cors de Chasse, bars 161–162.

5 At the time of writing there are four: ‘Sound Judgement, Sound Systems’ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy_o26C7KCw>, ‘Seriously Popular Music’ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F6iW5w2eqw>, ‘Whose Past is it anyway?’ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYtjQn_-fLQ>; and ‘Victims of Style, and other stories’ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBxctJTuntk>. Accessed 23 October 2013.

6 Meyer, Leonard, Music, the Arts, and Ideas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967)Google Scholar.

7 Meyer, Music, the Arts, and Ideas, p. 278.

8 Composed in 2010, the piece received a partial premiere by the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, conducted by Paul Hillier, in April 2012.