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Author Cooke, Mervyn.

Title Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd / Mervyn Cooke and Philip Reed.

Publication Info. Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  MT100.B778 B5 1993    Available  ---
Description xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Cambridge opera handbooks
Cambridge opera handbooks.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-176) and index.
Contents Herman Melville's Billy Budd ; Britten's Billy Budd : Melville as opera libretto / Mervyn Cooke -- From first thoughts to first night : a Billy Budd chronology ; The 1960 revisions : a two-act Billy Budd / Philip Reed -- Britten's 'prophetic song' : tonal symbolism in Billy Budd / Mervyn Cooke -- A Billy Budd notebook (1979-1991) / Donald Mitchell -- Stage history and critical reception.
Subject Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Billy Budd.
Added Author Reed, Philip, 1959-
Added Title Billy Budd
ISBN 0521383285 hardback
0521387507 paperback