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This study explores a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's extensive oeuvre across a range of genres, including opera, song cycle, and concert music. Informed by earlier writings on the composer's professional career and private life, the book also uncovers many fresh lines of inquiry, from the Lord Chamberlain's last-minute censorship of the 'Rape of Lucretia' libretto to psychoanalytic understandings of Britten's staging of gender roles; from the composer's delight in schoolboy humour to his operatic revival of Purcellian dance rhythms; from his creative responses to Cold-War-era internationalism to his dealings with BBC Television.
On ambiguity in Britten / Paul Kildea -- "O Hurry to the fêted spot of your deliberate fall" : death in Britten, 1936-1940 / Stephen Arthur Allen -- Love knots : Britten, Pears, and the sonnet / Lloyd Whitesell -- Britten, Grimes, and the "tuneful air" / Arved Ashby -- Post-war women in Britten / J.P.E. Harper-Scott -- Be flat or be natural? : pitch symbolism in Britten's operas / Mervyn Cooke -- Britten and the avant-garde in the 1950s / Philip Rupprecht -- Curlew River and cultural encounter / Heather Wiebe -- Britten's rhetoric of resistance : the works for Rostropovich / Arnold Whittall -- An excess of less? : critiquing Britten's late song-cycles / Christopher Mark -- Animating Owen Wingrave : ghosts and global television / Danielle Ward-Griffin -- The dye-line rehearsal scores for Death in Venice / Christopher Wintle.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]