The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage'

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Roger Savage is an Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also the author of Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas: Vaughan Williams and the Early Twentieth-Century Stage (2014).

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The Pre-History of 'The Midsummer Marriage' examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett's first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.

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CONTENTS

Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgements
I. Michael Tippett and Douglas Newton to 1943
II. Plotting a Masque: 'Refashioning the Traditions'
III. Collaboration on the Masque, 1943-44
IV. The Act II Scenario, circa February 1944
V. Friends' Reactions and Progress of the Collaboration, 1944-46
VI. New Directions (Newton solus)
VII. Fresh Beginnings and Continuities (Tippett solus)
VIII. Echoes and Foreshadowings
IX. Afterlives
Appendix I. Four poems by Douglas Newton
II. Newton, Bibliography to 1956
III. Tippett, the British Library Sketchbooks
Select Bibliography
Index of Names