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currentmusicology-4807	Walsh, Stephen	Review of Jonathan Cross. 2000. Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; and Robert Adlington. 2000. The Music of Harrison Birtwistle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press	2000	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3977	135	55	Reviewed by Stephen Walsh The more or less simultaneous appearance of these two substantial books on the music of Harrison Birtwistle by a pair of British academics is clinching evidence-if such a thing were required-of Birtwistle's stand­ ing as a major world figure, at least in the eyes of his British admirers. This is true in the sense that Birtwistle plunders distant epochs for his ritual forms, but untrue in the suggestion that they are culturally alien.	cache/currentmusicology-4807.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-4807.txt