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Author:   Lucy Walker ,  Arne Muus ,  Brian McMahon ,  Claire Seymour
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Volume:   v. 8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.412kg
ISBN:  

9781843835165

ISBN 10:   1843835169
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   19 November 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Lucy Walker Going Behind Britten's Back - Colin Matthews Performing Early Britten: Signs of Promise and Achievement in Poemes Nos 4 and 5 (1927) - Sharon Choa Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony: A Response to War Requiem? - Six Metamorphoses After Ovid and the Influence of Classical Mythology on Benjamin Britten - George Caird Britten and the Cinematic Frame - David Crilly Storms, Laughter and Madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and Generic Allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes - Jane Brandon Dramatic Invention in Myfanwy Piper's Libretto for Owen Wingrave - Frances Spalding 'The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone': Father Figures and Fighting Sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave - Arne Muus Made You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice - From the Borough to Fraser Island - Claire Seymour Britten and France; or the Late Emergence of a Remarkable Lyric Universe - Maena Py Why did Britten Return to Wartime England? - Brian McMahon

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This book contains substantive discussion of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. It is a solid contribution to the libraries of those who admire the composer and his work. ANGELICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY These essays should spark discussion among scholars and fans of Britten. BOOK NEWS Walker's book... paves the way to a freer, more balanced view of the man and musician. CLASSICAL MUSICRead and reflect, discuss and argue: (the contributors) are mostly new to Britten studies... and it must be a healthy sign if they are generating controversial ideas. It is also good to see two writers from continental Europe... Britten was an internationalist and it is surely right that Britten studies should be too. GRAMOPHONEIt is (the) critrical distance, and thurely right that Britten studies should be too. GRAMOPHONEIt is (the) critrical distance, and the absence of for-or-against defensiveness which

Walker's book...paves the way to a freer, more balanced view of the man and musician. CLASSICAL MUSICRead and reflect, discuss and argue: (the contributors) are mostly new to Britten studies...and it must be a healthy sign if they are generating controversial ideas. It is also good to see two writers from continental Europe...Britten was an internationalist and it is surely right that Britten studies should be too. GRAMOPHONE

This book contains substantive discussion of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. It is a solid contribution to the libraries of those who admire the composer and his work. ANGELICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY These essays should spark discussion among scholars and fans of Britten. BOOK NEWS Walker's book... paves the way to a freer, more balanced view of the man and musician. CLASSICAL MUSIC Read and reflect, discuss and argue: [the contributors] are mostly new to Britten studies... and it must be a healthy sign if they are generating controversial ideas. It is also good to see two writers from continental Europe... Britten was an internationalist and it is surely right that Britten studies should be too. GRAMOPHONE It is [the] critrical distance, and the absence of for-or-against defensiveness which has often scarred Britten scholarship, that distinguishes Walker's volume. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

This book contains substantive discussion of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. It is a solid contribution to the libraries of those who admire the composer and his work. ANGELICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY These essays should spark discussion among scholars and fans of Britten. BOOK NEWS Walker's book... paves the way to a freer, more balanced view of the man and musician. CLASSICAL MUSICRead and reflect, discuss and argue: (the contributors) are mostly new to Britten studies... and it must be a healthy sign if they are generating controversial ideas. It is also good to see two writers from continental Europe... Britten was an internationalist and it is surely right that Britten studies should be too. GRAMOPHONEIt is (the) critrical distance, and the absence of for-or-against defensiveness which has often scarred Britten scholarship, that distinguishes Walker's volume. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Lucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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