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A Study of Three Related Works by Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time, The Vision of Saint Augustine, The Mask of Time

Three works by Tippett stand together among his compositions because of their similarity of subject and performance medium. All are large works for soloists, chorus and orchestra, on meditative librettos, and intended for unstaged presentation. Only A Child of Our Time is given the genre designation "oratorio" by Tippett. An in-depth analysis of these works and the model for A Child of Our Time, Handel's Messiah, reveals that though they neither present religious subjects nor, in the case of The Vision of Saint Augustine and The Mask of Time, exhibit traditional formal divisions associated with oratorio, Tippett's works do indeed belong to the oratorio repertoire of the twentieth century.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500954
Date12 1900
CreatorsBolthouse, Colleen R.
ContributorsCollins, Michael (Michael B.), 1930-2011, Bush, Deanna D., Brothers, Lester Dwayne, 1945-
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formativ, 102 leaves : ill., music, Text
RightsPublic, Bolthouse, Colleen R., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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