British Musical Modernism

British Musical Modernism Explores The Works Of Eleven Key Composers To Reveal The Rapid Shifts Of Expression And Technique That Transformed British Art Music In The Post-War Period. Responding To Radical Avant-Garde Developments In Post-War Europe The Manchester Group Composers - Alexander Goehr Peter Maxwell Davies And Harrison Birtwistle - And Their Contemporaries Assimilated The Serial-Structuralist Preoccupations Of Mid-Century Internationalism To An Art Grounded In Resurgent Local Traditions. In Close Readings Of Some Thirty-Five Scores Philip Rupprecht Traces A Modernism Suffused With The Formal Elegance Of The 1950S The Exuberant Theatricality Of The 1960S And - In The Works Of David Bedford And Tim Souster - The Pop Minimalist And Live-Electronic Directions Of The Early 1970S. Setting Music-Analytic Insights Against A Broader Social-Historical Backdrop Rupprecht Traces A British Musical Modernism That Was At Once A Collective Artistic Endeavor And A Sounding Myth Of National Identity.