Literary Britten : words and music in Benjamin Britten's vocal works /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge :
The Boydell Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Aldeburgh studies in music ;
v. 13. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.