Heather Wiebe

Britten's Unquiet Pasts

Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

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Produktbeschreibung

Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780521194679
• ISBN-10: 0521194679
• Artikelnr.: 36030575

Autorenporträt

Heather Wiebe is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Virginia. A member of the editorial board of The Opera Quarterly, she has published widely on twentieth-century music, British musical culture and opera.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Music and cultural renewal
2. 'Today on Earth the Angels Sing': carols in wartime
3. Realizing Purcell
4. Gloriana and the 'new Elizabethans'
5. Noye's Fludde and the rituals of lost faith
6. Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry.