| Description |
xxxi, 312 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On ambiguity in Britten / Paul Kildea -- "O Hurry to the fêted spot of your deliberate fall" : death in Britten, 1936-1940 / Stephen Arthur Allen -- Love knots : Britten, Pears, and the sonnet / Lloyd Whitesell -- Britten, Grimes, and the "tuneful air" / Arved Ashby -- Post-war women in Britten / J.P.E. Harper-Scott -- Be flat or be natural? : pitch symbolism in Britten's operas / Mervyn Cooke -- Britten and the avant-garde in the 1950s / Philip Rupprecht -- Curlew River and cultural encounter / Heather Wiebe -- Britten's rhetoric of resistance : the works for Rostropovich / Arnold Whittall -- An excess of less? : critiquing Britten's late song-cycles / Christopher Mark -- Animating Owen Wingrave : ghosts and global television / Danielle Ward-Griffin -- The dye-line rehearsal scores for Death in Venice / Christopher Wintle. |
| Subject |
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Added Author |
Rupprecht, Philip Ernst, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780199794805 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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0199794804 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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9780199794812 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0199794812 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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