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eae spat ores 1 a < vu var 1K CONTENTS PASSION OF THE ‘CLOSED’ PRNCTELE exrANSON Of Tu “OPEN PRINGLE 116 ut 170 m4 1s FOREWORD Owe wouLD nF tempted to deste Mr Thoope Davie (aftr the conventional manne:) a6 w rising young compose, ‘wer it not fr the fact athe has sen, His msi for thos Cebraed. plays at the. Edinburgh Fesval—The Three Estates, The Gentle Shepherd and The Highland Pair—for the Stratford productions of Hemy YIU! and King Lear, 8 ll as other Works, hat won not only respect Bat alfction. ‘The reason ofcourse, that ME Thorpe Davie knows pre how best to set out his music so that it may be inteligible, Wis mosial im, for which he is much ia ote sgatitide, is clcty and not obscurity. We may suspect that his Scots antecodeats have had something to do with this ‘Atany rate Scolland i confident that opinion which places is ‘among tho leadors of Scottish art represents enlightenment Clearly the strecture and design of muse i 4 mueian's business. The erative artist Enows so much more about it than the pedant or (are we say?) the eric. The dieaty is {hat few composer ae happy in itercy expression. This one ‘san exception. ‘Therfore the student may tum to this work with coot- dence He will ad that much stock-in-trade information on “Tor is composed of non sequturs which in tars origina fin fallacies. Tho emotional background 16 sonata, the rela: tion—as inthe conceto—betwoen hubs of performance and ‘musical syle, the qualies of Haydn, Mozart and Purell Ga partials), the neces for anaes by eat rather than by ‘je these are some ofthe mater to receive treatment which ‘in caly stimulate the reader. So much music is eially Feviewed that no one who ae rea this work with eae til feel il at casein ropard to the design of sie 1 ts ten quoted ecin. The Tovey adit wil od Mar pe Dave congenial company. He wil ecomnise mc noch that Tovey aid not ay. 18 that Tovey oid say and cay i tty din Tus ook goes forward, even though in some res itis bound to go backward Tow INTRODUCTION EVER SINcE THERE have been men who have de ‘berataly sot out to compass plese of musi, end to give them ‘more oF less permanent form by recording them in wating, they have been faced with ono problam above al others, Tat problem arses at some point during the progress ofthe com- Postion, and sated badly, it takes the forma of the question hae shall Ido next?” Tn some petiods of musical history, varios dierent st factory Hinds of solution have boon found. At other dines ‘composers have teen less sure of themselves, Indeod, prac tealy the whole of one centurythe seventeenth var

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