Perspectives on Peter Maxwell DaviesAuthor :
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Published : Friday 26 August 2016
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In the eight essays presented here, leading scholars of the music of Peter Maxwell Davies explore some of the composers creative processes. David Roberts, Peter Owens and Richard McGregor examine Daviess employment of pitch-class sets and other models evident in his sketch material, while Joel Lester looks at the serial elements that produce structure and effect in the work Ave Maris Stella. The political, literary and musical influences evident in the 1987 opera Resurrection and in subsequent orchestral works come under scrutiny from John Warnaby. Daviess use of older dramatic forms and ritual is the focus of Michael Burdens examination of his music theatre. The composers own descriptions of his compositional process contain distinctly modernist overtones as Arnold Whittall suggests in the concluding essay in the volume. The sustained textural multiplicity evident in much of Daviess music points to this modernism. It is a multiplicity mirrored in the variety of approaches taken by the commentators in this volume. The differing points of view on offer complement and contrast each other, allowing the reader to appreciate the different levels on which Daviess music works.
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