caa a22 4500 388025492 CHVBK 20180307124937.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0040298200006252 doi S0040298200006252 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0040298200006252 Whittall Arnold Cross-Currents and Convergencies: Britten, Maxwell Davies and the Sense of Place [Elektronische Daten] [Arnold Whittall] Anyone bold enough to claim that the British compositional scene is dominated at present by a mainstream whose principal godfathers are Tippett and Birtwistle might just as well extend the reductive flourish by observing that an alternative duo - Britten and Maxwell Davies - not only have less in common with each other but are also less influential, less ‘significant'. Despite obvious differences of style, Tippett and Birtwistle share a basic predisposition to internationalism and modernism. By contrast, Britten's resistance to modernism and Davies's aspiration to classicism combine with a more direct response from both composers to local, if not exactly ‘national' features, and, by the criteria for mainstream membership given above, this means that they belong on the margins of contemporary musical life in Britain, not at the centre. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Tempo Cambridge University Press 204(1998-04), 5-11 0040-2982 ::204<5 1998 TEM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200006252 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200006252 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Whittall Arnold NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Tempo Cambridge University Press 204(1998-04), 5-11 0040-2982 ::204<5 1998 TEM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge