Literary Britten Words and Music in Benjamin Britten s Vocal Works Aldeburgh Studies in Music 13 by Benjamin Britten 9781787442566 178744256X

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• ISBN 10:178744256X
• ISBN 13:9781787442566
• Author: Benjamin Britten 

Literary Britten
Words and Music in Benjamin Britten’s Vocal Works

Table contents:

Part I Perspectives
1 Britten and His Librettists: The Composer as Auteur
2 Britten, Auden and the 1930s
3 James, Britten, Piper and the Literary Supernatural: The Changing ‘vision of evil’ in The Turn
4 ‘Thought’s Wildernesses’: The Development of Britten’s Nocturne from Library to Score
5 ‘Reading at Intervals’: Britten’s Romantic Poetry
6 Britten’s Drops: The Lyric into Song
7 ‘Without any tune’: The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten’s Interpretation of Poetry
8 Britten and Modern Tragedy
Part II Studies
9 Settings from Boyhood
10 ‘Practical Jokes’: Britten and Auden’s Our Hunting Fathers Revisited
11 Choice and Inevitability: The Moral Economy of Peter Grimes
12 Sin, Death and Love: Britten’s The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
13 Britten’s Donne Meditation
14 Scenes from Britten’s Spring Symphony
15 ‘I have read Billy Budd’: The Forster–Britten Reading(s) of Melville
16 Miles Must Die: Ideological Uses of ‘Innocence’ in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw
17 Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: From Abraham and Isaac to ‘The Nativity’
18 Ambiguous Venice

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