‘Dumped modernism’? The interplay of musical construction and spiritual affect in John Tavener and his To A Child Dancing In The Wind
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Inglis, B. 2020. ‘Dumped modernism’? The interplay of musical construction and spiritual affect in John Tavener and his To A Child Dancing In The Wind. in: Boyce-Tillman, J. and Forbes, A. (ed.) Heart's ease: spirituality in the music of John Tavener Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Mein, New York, Wien Peter Lang.
Chapter title | ‘Dumped modernism’? The interplay of musical construction and spiritual affect in John Tavener and his To A Child Dancing In The Wind |
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Authors | Inglis, B. |
Abstract | Since the 1990s, discourses around Tavener’s music – not least those promulgated by Sir John himself – have centred on its perceived spiritual qualities. These are linked explicitly with his conversion to Russian Orthodoxy in 1977, and relate the music wholeheartedly to traditional contexts, in contrast with the post-enlightenment Western view of musical expression (with which Tavener’s earlier compositions implicitly concur). As Geoffrey Haydon wrote in 1995, ‘Once he dumped modernism, his music came to inhabit a world made up largely of traditional models’. |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | Music group |
Book title | Heart's ease: spirituality in the music of John Tavener |
Editors | Boyce-Tillman, J. and Forbes, A. |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Place of publication | Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Mein, New York, Wien |
Series | Music and Spirituality |
ISBN | |
Paperback | 9781788747486 |
Electronic | 9781788747509 |
Electronic | 9781788747493 |
Publication dates | |
05 Oct 2020 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 19 Sep 2018 |
Accepted | 01 Sep 2018 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Web address (URL) | https://www.peterlang.com/view/9781788747509/html/ch17.xhtml |
Language | English |
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