Environmentalism and the Music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

• Main Author: Olson, Karen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Washington University Open Scholarship 2017
• Subjects: British music; ecocriticism; ecomusicology; Peter Maxwell Davies; Environmental Sciences; European History; Music; Philosophy; Antarctic; Labyrinth; Mackay; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/1135; https://doi.org/10.7936/K7NS0SB2; https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/context/art_sci_etds/article/2157/viewcontent/uc.pdf

Music critics and scholars frequently present British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016) as a green composer, but little work has been done to determine the kinds of environmentalism his music supports. This dissertation focuses on the relationship between Davies’s music and British envir...