McGregor, Richard: Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies (Ashgate Books) Hardback

Contents

Contents: Introduction; Alma redemptoris mater, David Roberts; Worldes Blis and its satellites, Peter Owens; A fox-trot to the crucifixion, Michael Burden; Structure and effect in Ave Maris Stella, Joel Lester; Peter Maxwell Davies’s recent music, and its debt to his earlier scores, John Warnaby; Compositional processes in some works of the 1980s, Richard McGregor; Max the symphonist, Richard McGregor; ‘A dance of the deadly sins’: The Beltane Fire and the rites of modernism, Arnold Whittall; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.