UID:
almahu_9948144225902882
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 405 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781787442566 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Aldeburgh studies in music ; volume 13
Content:
Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborations with his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2019).
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Introduction / Kate Kennedy -- Britten and his librettists : the composer as auteur / Mervyn Cooke -- Britten, Auden and the 1930s / John Fuller -- James, Britten, Piper and the literary supernatural : the changing "vision of evil" in The turn of the screw and Owen Wingrave / Nick Clark -- "Thought's wildernesses" : the development of Britten's Nocturne from library to score / Kate Kennedy -- "Reading at intervals" : Britten's romantic poetry / Brian Young -- Britten's drops : the lyric into song / Rebekah Scott -- "Without any tune" : the role of the discursive shift in Britten's interpretation of poetry / Vicki P. Stroeher -- Britten and modern tragedy / Adrian Poole -- Settings from boyhood / Lucy Walker -- "Practical jokes" : Britten and Auden's Our hunting fathers revisited / Joanna Bullivant -- Choice and inevitability : the moral economy of Peter Grimes / Philip Ross Bullock -- Sin, death, and love : Britten's Holy sonnets of John Donne / David Fuller -- Britten's Donne meditation / Justin Vickers -- Scenes from Britten's Spring symphony / Philip Rupprecht -- "I have read Billy Budd" : the Forster-Britten reading(s) of Melville / Hanna Rochlitz -- Miles must die : ideological uses of "innocence" in Britten's The turn of the screw / J.P.E. Harper-Scott -- Benjamin Britten and medieval drama at Chester : from Abraham and Isaac to "The Nativity" / Peter Happe -- Ambiguous Venice / John Hopkins.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781783272853
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787442566/type/BOOK
