Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520246098
,
0520246101
,
0520939123
,
9780520246096
,
9780520246102
,
9780520939127
Inhalt:
Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's searching and provocative work on the great British composer. Some of the early essays opened the door to gay studies in music, while the discussions that Brett initiated reinvigorated the study of Britten's work and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine "the new musicology." Addressing urgent questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, Bre
Inhalt:
0-520-24610-1-frontcover.pdf; 0-520-24610-1-text.pdf; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Rembering Philip Brett; 1 Britten and Grimes; 2 "Grimes Is at His Exercise": Sex, Politics, and Violence in theLibrettos of Peter Grimes; 3 Grimes and Lucretia; 4 Salvation at Sea: Britten's Billy Budd; 5 Character and Caricature in Albert Herring; 6 Britten's Bad Boys: Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw; 7 Britten's Dream; 8 Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas; 9 Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors
Inhalt:
10 Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor11 Auden's Britten; 12 The Britten Era; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX: PHILIP BRETT'SBRITTEN SCHOLARSHIP; WORKS CITED; INDEX
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520246098
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520246101
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brett, Philip Music and Sexuality in Britten : Selected Essays CA : University of California Press, ©2006 ISBN 9780520246096
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Bookmarklink
