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FORMING, SUBMERGING, FLAMES, AIR: A MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE FOR VIC HOYLAND'S ‘PHOENIX’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2011

Extract

In January 2009 the third part of a triptych of orchestral compositions by Vic Hoyland was performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Each of its constituent compositions relates to a particular city: Vixen to Palermo, Qibti to Alexandria, and Phoenix to Venice. This article seeks a positive heuristics and proposes a reading of Phoenix that contemplates some of the ways in which freeing Hoyland's recent music from old arguments and discourses reveals music that is responsive to contemporary thought, fascinating, virtuosically idiosyncratic, and which presents new challenges to musical design.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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