This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career.
This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career.
Philip Rupprecht is Associate Professor of Music at Duke University. He is the author of Britten's Musical Language (Cambridge) and co-editor of Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice (Steiner, 2012).
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Contents Contributors Introduction: Britten's Music and its Audiences Philip Rupprecht I Public and Private 1 On Ambiguity in Britten Paul Kildea 2 "O Hurry to the Fêted Spot of your Deliberate Fall": Death in Britten, 1936-1940 Stephen Arthur Allen 3 Love Knots: Britten, Pears, and the Sonnet Lloyd Whitesell II Opera 4 Britten, Grimes, and the "Tuneful Air" Arved Ashby 5 Post-War Women in Britten J.P.E. Harper-Scott 6 Be Flat or Be Natural? Pitch Symbolism in Britten's Operas Mervyn Cooke III Post-War Encounters 7 Britten and the Avant-Garde in the 1950s Philip Rupprecht 8 Curlew River and Cultural Encounter Heather Wiebe 9 Britten's Rhetoric of Resistance: the Works for Rostropovich Arnold Whittall IV Late Modern 10 An Excess of Less? Critiquing Britten's Late Song-Cycles Christopher Mark 11 Animating Owen Wingrave: Ghosts and Global Television Danielle Ward-Griffin 12 The Dye-line Rehearsal Scores for Death in Venice Christopher Wintle Works Cited Index
Contents Contributors Introduction: Britten's Music and its Audiences Philip Rupprecht I Public and Private 1 On Ambiguity in Britten Paul Kildea 2 "O Hurry to the Fêted Spot of your Deliberate Fall": Death in Britten, 1936-1940 Stephen Arthur Allen 3 Love Knots: Britten, Pears, and the Sonnet Lloyd Whitesell II Opera 4 Britten, Grimes, and the "Tuneful Air" Arved Ashby 5 Post-War Women in Britten J.P.E. Harper-Scott 6 Be Flat or Be Natural? Pitch Symbolism in Britten's Operas Mervyn Cooke III Post-War Encounters 7 Britten and the Avant-Garde in the 1950s Philip Rupprecht 8 Curlew River and Cultural Encounter Heather Wiebe 9 Britten's Rhetoric of Resistance: the Works for Rostropovich Arnold Whittall IV Late Modern 10 An Excess of Less? Critiquing Britten's Late Song-Cycles Christopher Mark 11 Animating Owen Wingrave: Ghosts and Global Television Danielle Ward-Griffin 12 The Dye-line Rehearsal Scores for Death in Venice Christopher Wintle Works Cited Index
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