Composition 3

MUH 2026

Contemporary British Music

Indicative works: Knussen - Coursing; Macmillan - Busqueda; Judith Weir, Diana Burrell

Contemporary British Music

• Long-term issues mixed up with economics and politics - Britain's history and it's current confusion over relationship with Europe and the USA
• Byrd, Tallis, Purcell
• The British Empire - focusing on world events rather than European.
• Elgar
• Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Benjamin Britten
• The Manchester School - Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr.
• Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, James Macmillan
• Mark-Anthony Turnage