Citation

McGregor R. Cambridge Opera Journal 2012; 24(3): 319-351.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012)

DOI

10.1017/S0954586712000274

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article explores how Peter Maxwell Davies uses thematic and structural devices to chart the means by which the title character in Mr Emmet Takes a Walk is led towards suicide.

DISCUSSION centres on how Davies integrates use of quotation and trademark musical gestures into the development of characterisation in order to explore different states of 'reality, dream and waking fantasy' by which he seeks to explain the reasons for Emmet's suicide. © Cambridge University Press 2012.

Language: en