Festschrift for Alexander Goehr.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]), discography (p. [355]-357), chronological list of works (p. [351]-353), and index.

Alexander Goehr at 70 / Robin Holloway -- Sphere-born harmonious sisters : reconciling voice and verse in Sing, Ariel / Frank Kermode -- Sing, Ariel (the text) -- Canonic codes / George Benjamin -- The way to the new : Alexander Goehr in conversation with Julian Anderson -- Canonic studies and time pieces on the motif FB-AG / David Drew -- The composer's confidant : Goehr's early piano music / Bill Hopkins -- Difficulties of the right kind : Goehr's --in real time / Stephen Plaistow -- More with less / Bernard Williams -- To speak as it were through various voices : tonal invention in the first movement of Schlussgesang / Silvina Milstein -- Calling it by the right name : words, poetry (and a little music) in the Analects of Confucius / Amira Katz-Goehr -- A not-so-little music : Goehr's op. 16 as paradigm / Bayan Northcott -- All the dancers know it and it is valid for all times : Goehr, Kafka and the Law of the quadrille / Jonathan Dunsby -- Das Gesetz der Quadrille (the text) -- Is there something to understand? : the question of meaning in music / Simha Arom and Jean Khalfa -- Performance writ large : desultory remarks on furnishing the abode of the retired scholar / Nicholas Cook -- Honour displaced / Lydia Goehr -- Twelve-note roots : the fifth and sixth movements of The death of Moses / Aaron Einbond -- Malipiero, Monteverdi, Mussolini and musicology / Iain Fenlon -- Training the rose : reflections on the individual and the collective in new music / Geoffrey Poole -- A rhythmical language of thrust and repose : Goehr's Suite op. 11 / Anthony Gilbert -- JSB : a prologue, three stories and an epilogue / Michael Wolpe -- An island formation in Schoenberg's fourth string quartet : notes from a diary / Christopher Wintle -- Born-again opera : Goehr and Behold the sun / John Deathridge -- Sweetly, dangerously-- lucidly : aspects of Sing, Ariel / Beth Wiseman -- The second life of Goehr / Paul Driver -- On music of conviction-- and an enduring friendship / Hugh Wood.