BookMusic of Meta Overman : The Queen of Colour and Fantasy / Jeanell Carrigan.
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Respected by fellow composers and performers, Dutch/Australian
composer Meta Overman was one of the foremost contributors to
musical cultural life in Australia in the middle of the twentieth
century.
The music of Meta Overman is innovative, individual, sometimes
humorous, expressing amazing creativity and powered by an urge to
present strong visual imagery. Of particular interest to
performers is the way that Overman suggests images in her music
which are so tangible that they have an almost visual quality.
Overman was also a composer who was very influenced by the work
of others, and she adopted different styles throughout the many
compositional periods in her life, colouring these with her own
individual musical language. It is impossible to separate the
person Meta Overman, with her strong spirituality and beliefs,
and the composer Meta Overman: one was the result of the other.
her output covers all genres including opera, ballet, and
orchestral works. There are seventeen works or sets of works for
piano solo, five for orchestra, six sets of songs, five choral
works, eleven operas including one three-act opera, four ballets
and twenty-four chamber works, some of which are for two
pianos.
Each chapter discusses Overman's works composed during a
particular period of her life. Most will be discussed in terms of
musical language, motific development and inspirational aspects
and the important points for a performer. To compensate for any
sparsity of verbal description will be the inclusion of QR codes
which link to sound files - musical examples - of many works
which have been recorded or filmed. These will give a performer's
interpretation of the works and enable the reader to 'get the
full picture' for themselves.
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