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Britten's musical language / Philip Rupprecht.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rupprecht, Philip Ernst, author.
- Series:
- Music in the twentieth century ; 17.
- Music in the twentieth century ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
- Britten, Benjamin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 358 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song. It provides close interpretative studies of the major scores (including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, War Requiem, Curlew River and Death in Venice) and explores Britten's ability to fashion complex and mysterious symbolic dramas from the interplay of texted song and a wordless discourse of motives and themes. Focusing on the performative and social basis of language, Philip Rupprecht replaces traditional notions of textual 'expression' in opera with the interpretation of topics such as the role of naming and hate speech in Peter Grimes; the disturbance of ritual certainty in the War Requiem; and the codes by which childish 'innocence' is enacted in The Turn of the Screw.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Britten's musical language
- 2. Peter Grimes: the force of operatic utterance
- 3. Motive and narrative in Billy Budd
- 4. The Turn of the Screw: innocent performance
- 5. Rituals: the War Requiem and Curlew River
- 6. Subjectivity and perception in Death in Venice.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-351) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780511088933
- 0511088930
- 9781107127975
- 1107127971
- 9781280417450
- 1280417455
- 9781139145862
- 113914586X
- 9780511170362
- 051117036X
- 9780511066115
- 0511066112
- 9780511059803
- 0511059809
- 9780511482021
- 0511482027
- 9780511331244
- 051133124X
- 9780511068249
- 0511068247
- OCLC:
- 437069059
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb07580 hdl
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