Ruth Gipps: Anti-modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English MusicAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 192 pages When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's most prolific female composers. Her creative output spanned some seventy years and includes symphonies, tone poems, concertos, string quartets and various large-scale choral and chamber works. Not content with her creative activities, her boundless energy fuelled her other roles as conductor, concert pianist, orchestral musician and pedagogue. Her many talents were acknowledged but not always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy. She gained a reputation for being uncompromising both personally and musically, a reputation that was to ultimately leave her isolated. In the first major review of her life and work the importance of Ruth Gipps is established in two ways: first, as a pioneering woman composer and conductor whose work challenged prevailing attitudes in the era directly after the war and second, as a composer whose musical philosophy was often at odds with mainstream thinking |
Contents
Wars | 19 |
Conducting | 41 |
Difference | 57 |
AntiModernism | 77 |
Englishness | 101 |
Difference | 125 |
List of Works | 163 |
Bibliography | 181 |
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Ruth Gipps: Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music Jill Halstead Limited preview - 2017 |
Ruth Gipps: Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music Jill Halstead Limited preview - 2017 |
Ruth Gipps: Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music Jill Halstead No preview available - 2016 |
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