Michael Nyman Music from The Draughtman’s Contract
Michael Nyman
Music from The Draughtman’s Contract (1982)
Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds* 00:00
The garden is becoming a robe room** 05:06
An eye for optical theory*** 11:15
Michael Nyman, piano and director
Michael Nyman Band
My music for The Draughtman’s Contract neatly draws together some musicological loose-ends of 1967 with some not-so-loose compositional ends (and means) of 1982. The setting of the film -England - suggested the use of (then) contemporary music, and immediately that of Henry Purcell not merely because he died in 1695 but because he was a better composer than anyone else in England at that time (and more or less ever since).
[…] One of the delights of working with Peter Greenaway is the possibilities it gives me of providing a ‘service’ and working precisely the same way I do when writing my ‘concert music’; but without The Draughtman’s Contract there would have been no opportunity to return, gratefully, to the music of my past, that of Henr
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