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Maxwell Davies's Second Taverner Fantasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Stephen Pruslin
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Extract

The relationship between the musical thinking of Gustav Mahler and Peter Maxwell Davies becomes ever more apparent, and in the ‘Second Fantasia on John Taverner's In Nomine’ it takes on crucial importance.

The connection manifests itself immediately in the two composers' attitudes towards ‘surface’. A musical image is an abstraction of psychic content and must be given corporeal identity before it is communicable. Musical composition is the crystallization of the image into specific note-configurations of pitch, rhythm, timbre, register, etc. which taken together comprise the surface of a work. The act of listening then reverses the process by going from the surface back to the image. Composition is translation and listening is retranslation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 73 , Summer 1965 , pp. 2 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1965

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