Music and Inspiration

Name: Music and Inspiration
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ISBN: 9780571200252

ISBN-10: 0571200257

ISBN-13: 9780571200252

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jonathan Harvey, Michael Downes

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Jonathan Harvey, one of Britain's foremost composers, brings a composer's insight to the relationship between the source of inspiration and the act of composition. He aims to chart the common ground between many different composers.

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.54" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Composer and the Unconscious


The Need for Inspiration


Preparation for Inspiration


The Experience of Inspiration



The Composer and Experience


The Everyday World


Artistic Experience


Autobiography


Inspiration, Technique and the Compositional Process



The Composer and the Audience


Pleasing the Crowd


Defining the Audience


Composing for a Single Person


Composing for a Nation


Composing for the World



The Composer and the Ideal


Order


Unity


Aspiring towards the Ideal


Paradise in Music


Postscript


Notes


Bibliography


Index