This study is a performer’s guide to Michael Tippett’s The Blue Guitar. Included is a detailed analysis of Tippett’s work, treatment of form, structure, style, language and historical significance. The study will also trace and explore how Pablo Picasso, Wallace Stevens and Michael Tippett realized the subject of the ‘blue guitar’ in the arts of painting, poetry and music.
By Orlando Roman
Performer’s Guide to Michael Tippett’s The Blue Guitar
http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11152003-221133/
