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The Cambridge companion to Benjamin Britten / edited by Mervyn Cooke.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B853 C36 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
- Britten, Benjamin.
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This is a comprehensive guide to Britten's work, aimed both at the nonspecialist and the music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Apprenticeship
- 1 Juvenilia (1922-1932) / Christopher Mark 11
- 2 Britten, Auden and 'otherness' / Paul Kildea 36
- 3 Britten in the cinema: Coal Face / Philip Reed 54
- Part 2 The operas
- 4 'He descended into Hell': Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford and salvation denied / Stephen Arthur Allen 81
- 5 The chamber operas / Arnold Whittall 95
- 6 Gloriana: Britten's 'slighted child' / Antonia Malloy-Chirgwin 113
- 7 Britten and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Mervyn Cooke 129
- 8 Eros in life and death: Billy Budd and Death in Venice / Clifford Hindley 147
- Part 3 Perspectives
- 9 Distant horizons: from Pagodaland to the Church Parables / Mervyn Cooke 167
- 10 Violent climates / Donald Mitchell 188
- 11 Britten as symphonist / Arved Ashby 217
- 12 The concertos and early orchestral scores: aspects of style and aesthetic / Eric Roseberry 233
- 13 The chamber music / Philip Rupprecht 245
- 14 Music for voices / Ralph Woodward 260
- Part 4 The composer in the community
- 15 Britten and the world of the child / Stephen Arthur Allen 279
- 16 Old songs in new contexts: Britten as arranger / Eric Roseberry 292
- 17 Aldeburgh / Judith LeGrove 306.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-342) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 052157384X
- 0521574765
- OCLC:
- 39627483
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