caa a22 4500 388025476 CHVBK 20180307124937.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0040298200006276 doi S0040298200006276 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0040298200006276 Jones Nicholas ‘Preliminary workings': the precompositional process in Maxwell Davies's Third Symphony [Elektronische Daten] [Nicholas Jones] The overriding picture that emerges from the scrutiny of the sketches for Peter Maxwell Davies's Third Symphony (1984) is the remarkable insight it affords in demonstrating a highly proficient composer in total control of his material. He is the consummate workman: diligent, methodical, economical. Indeed, his rather cerebral approach can be construed as objective - purely in the sense of the detached and calculating nature of the sketches, seemingly free as they are from spontaneous outpourings of instinctive musical inspiration. Nevertheless, Davies's method of composing endows the overall project with a sense of cogent direction and powerful meaning. Such discernment is not easily achieved, and has to be carefully planned early on in the work's genesis; certainly, the Third Symphony - a prodigious piece of architecture lasting almost one hour - is enriched by its preliminary working-out. Furthermore, Davies's employment of precompositional determinants, such as Magic Squares and pitch and durational matrices, is so integral to the overall construction of the piece that there exists a susbstantial volume of material, soley devoted to precompositional workings for the work. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Tempo Cambridge University Press 204(1998-04), 14-24 0040-2982 ::204<14 1998 TEM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200006276 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200006276 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jones Nicholas NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Tempo Cambridge University Press 204(1998-04), 14-24 0040-2982 ::204<14 1998 TEM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge