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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500954 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Bolthouse, Colleen R. |
| Contributors | Collins, Michael (Michael B.), 1930-2011, Bush, Deanna D., Brothers, Lester Dwayne, 1945- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 102 leaves : ill., music, Text |
| Rights | Public, Bolthouse, Colleen R., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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