Perspectives on the Music of Christopher Fox: Straight Lines in Broken Times

In this, the first major study of his work, musicologists, composers, thinkers and practitioners scrutinize aspects of Christopher Foxs music, each exploring elements that relate to their own distinct areas of practice, tracing Foxs compositional trajectory and situating it within post-war contemporary European music practice. Above all this book addresses the question, how can one person dip his fingers into so many paint pots and yet retain a coherent compositional vision? The range of Foxs musical concerns make his work of interest to anyone who wants to study the development of so-called new music spanning the latter twentieth century into the twenty first century.