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Author:   Peter Franklin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032666648

ISBN 10:   1032666641
Pages:   116
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Title and Foreword (concluding with ‘A note on the text’). List of Figures 1. Introduction; the roots of my musical taste and Chowrimootoo’s worry -00 ‘Noyes Fludde’ from the pews -00 2. Secondary-school Britten; ‘The Turn of the Screw’-00 Music A-level and ‘War Requiem’ -00 3. Encountering Britten as a music student at York in the late 1960s -00 Essay: Grimes and the Sentimental -00 4. Graduation; Britten and Pears return to York -00 Essay: Billy Budd. Confronting the Highbrow Critique of Opera -00 5. Singing at Aldeburgh; musical scholarship -00 Opera in the ’70s, and ‘Death in Venice’ -00 6. A trip to East Berlin and the start of a career -00 Teaching opera. Britten’s Death. Mahler and Donald Mitchell -00 7. Essay: Travels. Towards Musical Meaning (The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings). -00 Leeds. ‘The open secret’. Philip Brett and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. -00 8. Essay: Modernism and Musicology -00 Select Bibliography -00 Index Acknowledgements

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Peter Franklin, a professor of music at the University of Oxford until 2014, is an Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine’s College. He has taught on both sides of the Atlantic and has written a number of books and articles on Mahler, Schreker and other composers of the period c. 1880–1933.

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