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Ruth Gipps - Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music (Paperback)
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Ruth Gipps - Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music (Paperback)
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When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's
most prolific female composers. Her creative output spanned some
seventy years and includes symphonies, tone poems, concertos,
string quartets and various large-scale choral and chamber works.
Not content with her creative activities, her boundless energy
fuelled her other roles as conductor, concert pianist, orchestral
musician and pedagogue. Her many talents were acknowledged but not
always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy.
She gained a reputation for being uncompromising both personally
and musically, a reputation that was ultimately to leave her
isolated. In the first major review of her life and work the
importance of Ruth Gipps is established in two ways: first, as a
pioneering woman composer and conductor whose work challenged
prevailing attitudes in the era directly after the war and second,
as a composer whose musical philosophy was often at odds with
mainstream thinking. Although she was branded a reactionary, her
position reveals a number of important counter currents in English
musical life in the twentieth century. The first section of the
book documents her formative years, her life as child prodigy, the
disruption and opportunities offered by war, the dramatic end of
her career as a concert pianist and her subsequent entry into the
world of conducting. The influence of key figures such as Vaughan
Williams, Arthur Bliss, Malcolm Arnold and George Weldon is
explored, as is Gipps's habitually thorny relationship with a range
of musical institutions including the BBC and the City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In the second part of the book her
compositional output is reviewed. Works are explored via the
guiding themes of her creative agenda; namely anti-modernism and
Englishness. The book closes with an analysis of a group of works
which all have gendered narratives or readings. As Gipps regularly
used personal experience as the basis for such musical narratives,
these works provide an intimate insight into this fascinating and
complex woman.
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