Literary Britten : words and music in Benjamin Britten's vocal works
Title:
Literary Britten : words and music in Benjamin Britten's vocal works
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Kate Kennedy.
Publication Information:
Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, [2018]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xix, 405 pages) : illustrations, music
ISBN:
9781787442566
Abstract:
"Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborations with his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself."--From publisher's description.
Local Note:
JSTOR
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-397) and index.
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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 / Nicholas 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.
Source of Description Note:
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, June 6, 2022).