Michael Nyman is one of the world's most successful living composers. In this first book-length study in English, Pwyll ap Siôn places Nyman's writings within the general context of Anglo-American experimentalism, minimalism and post-minimalism, and provides a series of useful contexts from which controversial aspects of Nyman's musical language can be more clearly understood and appreciated. Drawing upon terms informed by intertextual theory, appropriation and borrowing are first introduced within the context of twentieth-century art music and theory. These types form the basis of a more in-depth study of his works. Text in English.
Pwyll ap Siôn is lecturer in music in the School of Music, University of North Wales, Bangor, UK.
Pwyll ap Siôn, The Music of Michael Nyman, Ashgate 2007, € 54 (hardcover)