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Nicholas Maw: Odyssey (Landmarks in Music Since 1950) by Kenneth Gloag is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Nicholas Maw: Odyssey (Landmarks in Music Since 1950) about?
Nicholas Maw's Odyssey is a landmark in contemporary music. At approximately 90 minutes it is one of the longest continuous examples of music written for full-orchestra and it received a first, truncated, performance at the 1987 BBC Proms. In this book, Gloag provides a detailed discussion of Maw's musical identity and reputation as a contemporary composer in relation to romanticism, modernism and postmodernism, taking into consideration his break-through work Scenes and Arias (1962) and the sub
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kenneth Gloag
- Publisher
- Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780754638551
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Music, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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