Benjamin Britten : new perspectives on his life and work / edited by Lucy Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Lucy (Lucy S.)

Series:

Aldeburgh studies in music ; v. 8.

Aldeburgh studies in music ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Britten, Benjamin.

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 191 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2009.

Contents:

Going behind Britten's back / Colin Matthews

Performing early Britten: Signs of promise and achievement in Poèmes nos. 4 and 5 (1927) / Sharon Choa

Shostakovich's Fourteenth symphony: A response to War requiem? / Cameron Pyke

Six metamorphoses after Ovid and the influence of classical mythology on Benjamin Britten / George Caird

Britten and the cinematic frame / David Crilly

Storms, laughter and madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and generic allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes / Jane Brandon

Dramatic invention in Myfanwy Piper's libretto for Owen Wingrave / Frances Spalding

'The minstrel boy to the war is gone' : Father figures and fighting sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave / Arne Muus

Made you look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice / J.P.E. Harper-Scott

From 'The Borough' to Fraser Island / Claire Seymour

Britten and France, or the late emergence of a remarkable lyric universe / Maéna Py

Why did Benjamin Britten return to wartime England? / Brian McMahon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781843835165

1843835169

OCLC:

318413589