Critical Perspectives On Michael Finnissy - Bright Futures, Dark Pasts

Introduction Section A: Finnissy's aesthetics and styles -Michael Finnissy: modernism with an English accent -Post-experimental survivor: Finnissy the experimentalist -Negotiating borrowing, genre and mediation in the piano music of Finnissy: strategies and aesthetics -Ontological implications in the work of Finnissy Section B - Finnissy's identities -Marginality and Finnissian performance in the 1980s -'My "personal themes"?!' Finnissy's Seventeen Homosexual Poets and the material world -Finnissy's Voices -'Listening to the instrument(s)': a performer's response to Finnissy's music for String Quartet and the Chi Mei Ricercari for cello and piano Section C - Compositional considerations -Notational and non-notational paradigms in Finnissy's music -Finnissy and pantonality: surface and inner necessity -The medium is now the material: The 'folklore' of Chris Newman and Michael Finnissy -Finnissy's hand Section D - Contexts and case studies -Questioning the foreign and familiar: interpreting Finnissy's use of traditional and non-Western musical sources -Finnissy's three-point plans: Political Agendas and musical enunciations -Finnissy's alongside -From Jean-Luc Godard to Dennis Potter: Finnissy's cinematic and televisual inspirations Index