All the gods : Benjamin Britten's Night-piece in context / Christopher Wintle ; edited by Julian Littlewood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wintle, Christopher.

Contributor:

Littlewood, Julian.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Poetics of music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Night piece.

Britten, Benjamin.

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation.

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 125 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 x 30 cm.

Other Title:

Benjamin Britten's Night-piece in context

Place of Publication:

London : Britten Estate Limited and the Institute of Advanced Musical Studies (KCL) in association with Plumbago Books ; Woodbridge, Suffolk : Distributed by Boydell & Brewer, 2006.

Summary:

Peter Pears once described Benjamin Britten as a Greek who worships all the gods'; and in order to come to terms with Britten's music it is necessary to recognize a language deeply embedded in this Western tradition. This book is devoted to Night-piece (Notturno, written for the first Leeds International Pianoforte Competition of 1963. It addresses the work from many points of view: historical, documentary, analytical, formal, kinetic, hermeneutical, and affective. It also includes a wide range of illustrated allusions to other music, a full set of sketches, the printed score, arrays of modes and voice-leading graphs, and two appendices that take the issues of intensification and neapolitan relations further. In so doing, it provides a new model for the study of Britten's work in general.

Contents:

I The First Leeds International Pianoforte Competition 3

II The Three Versions of the Musical Text 6

Version A 'Notturno', Original Version (Manuscript) and Transcription 26

Version B 'Night-piece', Second Manuscript Version (left) 36

Version C 'Night-piece', Printed Version (right) 37

Part 3 Theory and Analysis

I Theory: The Modes 57

II Analysis 64

Part 4 Ideas

I Tradition, Devotion, Creativity and Idea 79

II Idea as Form 82

III Idea as Steigerung (Intensification) 89

IV Idea as Neapolitan Complex 94

I On Intensification: ('Was ist Steigerung') 101

II On the Neapolitan Complex: ('The Sceptred Pall: Brahms's Progressive Harmony') 111.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes three versions of the score.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Contains:

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Night piece.

ISBN:

0954012380

9780954012380

OCLC:

80016289