Kennedy Literary Britten

Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78744-256-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 13, 425 Seiten

Reihe: Aldeburgh Studies in Music

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 collaborationswith his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, Kate

Weitere Mitwirkende

Poole, Adrian

Young, Brian

Fuller, David

Rochlitz, Hanna

Bullivant, Joanna

Fuller, John

Hopkins, John

Vickers, Justin

Kennedy, Kate

Walker, Lucy

Cooke, Mervyn

Clark, Nick

Happe, Peter

Rupprecht, Philip E.

Bullock, Philip Ross

Scott, Rebekah

Vicki Stroeher, Vicki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 -
Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: From Abraham and Isaac to 'The Nativity' - Peter Happe
Ambiguous Venice - John Hopkins
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Walker Lucy:
Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Bullock Philip Ross:
PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK is Professor of Russian and Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford. Previously for Boydell,he has published a translation of the correspondencence between Rosa Newmarch and Jean Sibelius, and in 2016, his biography of Tchaikovsky was published in the Critical Lives series by Reaktion.