Composer: Harrison Birtwistle

Responses: Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless
Piano and Orchestra Study Score
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Category: Band/Orchestra/Ensemble
Series: Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books
Format: Softcover

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.

Inventory # : 48024788
UPC: 888680967536
ISBN: 1784545317
Width: 9"
Length: 12"
Height: 0.257"
Product Weight: 0.8 lbs.
Number of Pages: 100