Amanuensis of the Sea: Peter Maxwell Davies’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 and the Antarctic Symphony

• Main Author: Vickers, Justin
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ISU ReD: Research and eData 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Sullivan; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpm/42; https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783270620/the-sea-in-the-british-musical-imagination/

For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians. Generations of British artists have viewed the ocean as a metaphor for the mutable human condition - by turns calm and reflective, tempestuous and destructive - and have been influenced as much by...