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for speaker, SATB choir, boys' choir, and orchestra Olivier's Henry
V was one of Walton's most celebrated film scores. Christopher
Palmer's imaginative reconstruction turned it into a dramatic
scenario which has been scrupulously edited, and is presented here
with a full set of textual notes, including introduction, synopsis,
notes on the sources and text, and facsimiles. Orchestral material
is available on hire.
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Song Album (Sheet music)
William Walton; Arranged by Christopher Palmer
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R784
Discovery Miles 7 840
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This collection presents the best of Walton's music for voice and
piano and provides singers with challenging and rewarding
repertoire.
Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat;
it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses
fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the
imagination of apocalypse from the postwar British disaster novels,
through novels of the countercultural sixties, feminist
interventions, and recent revisions and critiques. As empire fades,
ideas of sexuality shift, and attitudes to nature and to the city
change, so apocalyptic fictions change. The individual subject is
asserted, immolated, transcended, abandoned; individual deaths are
substituted for mass death; death is faked or erased. The subjects
and survivors of catastrophe set about re-establishing
civilization, or they abandon it, finding new ways of being and of
dying; they respond to it when it comes from outside, as an
invasion, or they are immersed in it, as it shifts from being an
event to being a condition. They flee the city for the country, or
accept that they must draw on the energies of the world city in
order to survive. The book includes detailed discussion of novels
by H. G. Wells, George M. Stewart, Nevil Shute, John Wyndham,
Arthur C. Clarke, J. G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Doris Lessing,
Angela Carter, Anna Kavan, Arno Schmidt, Anthony Burgess, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Tom Perrotta, Douglas Coupland, Don DeLillo, China
Mieville, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kim Stanley Robinson.
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