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Author: Hillier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.70cm
Weight: 0.327kg
ISBN: 9780198166160
ISBN 10: 0198166168
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 24 April 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This book is perhaps most valuable as an in-depth study of Part's attempt to 'learn how to walk again as a composer' ... Hillier gives a most illuminating account of Part's determination to pare down and reconstruct both his musical ideas and his technique ... This book is the best possible refutation of the notion that Part's music is a simple remortgaging of a past musical idiom. Peter Quinn, Tempo 202 The first English-language book devoted to Part ... Hillier is especially qualified to speak on Part's work ... the book also provides an apt amount of biographical scene setting. Billboard, 5 July 1997 a detailed work-by-work study by a leading expert who knows the composer, fleshed out with biographical details and useful appendices; there are copious music examples ... a highly detailed text which veers between analytical charts and more straightforward descriptive writing Gramophone, September 1997
.,. [a] marvelous study of Arvo Part. --Books and Culture<br> .,. there is much that Hillier explores well here-thoroughly, appropriately, and revealingly. --American Record Guide<br>
a detailed work-by-work study by a leading expert who knows the composer, fleshed out with biographical details and useful appendices; there are copious music examples ... a highly detailed text which veers between analytical charts and more straightforward descriptive writing * Gramophone, September 1997 * The first English-language book devoted to Part ... Hillier is especially qualified to speak on Part's work ... the book also provides an apt amount of biographical scene setting. * Billboard, 5 July 1997 * This book is perhaps most valuable as an in-depth study of Part's attempt to 'learn how to walk again as a composer' ... Hillier gives a most illuminating account of Part's determination to pare down and reconstruct both his musical ideas and his technique ... This book is the best possible refutation of the notion that Part's music is a simple remortgaging of a past musical idiom. * Peter Quinn, Tempo 202 *
Author Information
Paul Hillier is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis. He has made over forty recordings as a singer and conductor and is the editor of 300 Years of Partsongs, English Romantic Partsongs (OUP), The Catch Book (OUP), and Le Beau Ballet d'Amour.
