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Tippett: A Child of Our Time

by Kenneth Gloag

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A contextual guide to Tippett’s wartime oratorio

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A contextual guide to Tippett’s wartime oratorio

Kenneth Gloag’s handbook examines Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time in relation to the early years of the Second World War and the work’s engagement with human cruelty. It considers both sides of the oratorio’s construction: how Tippett shaped his own libretto and how the music gives that text form. Historical, social, and stylistic contexts frame the discussion, while a section on the work’s early critical reception traces responses that have continued to influence its place in discussion of Tippett’s music. At 111 pages, it offers a focused entry point into a single major work rather than a broad survey of the composer.

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  • Listeners and students studying Tippett’s A Child of Our Time
  • Readers interested in twentieth-century British choral and vocal music
  • Musicians seeking historical and textual context for an oratorio

Themes

Second World War contextOratorio and librettoMusic and textCritical receptionTwentieth-century British music

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Book overview

Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time was written at the beginning of the second world war as an expression of "man's inhumanity to man." This Handbook discusses the significant musical and literary features of this remarkable work within its specific historical, social and stylistic context. Attention is given to the shaping of Tippett's own text as well as its musical representation. Also of importance is the initial critical reception of the work, a reception that defined certain responses that still surround the work today.
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