Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Piano and Orchestra Study Score

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). This characteristically ever-evolving, single (29-minute) movement bears the remarkable title Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless, which is that of a book of essays by Birtwistle's friend Robert Maxwell... The composer must not be "too precisein every part", a frequent failing of the post-Schoenbergian serial music on which Birtwistle cut his teeth. But his own imaginationhas never subordinated itself to mathematics, and certainly doesn't in this turbulent, scherzo-like, brilliantly multilayered score (a melodic thread always on hand to lead us through the maze of invention)... the soloist-and-tutti relationship, Birtwistle's abiding concern, went into a dazzling new dimension.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784545317
• ISBN13: 9781784545314
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Inc
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.0" x 11.0"