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OverviewBritten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborationswith his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself. Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborationswith his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself. This book takes a unique approach to Britten, drawing together well-known Britten experts alongside English, music, modern language andhistory scholars who bring their own perspective to bear on Britten's work. Chapters examine all aspects of Britten's text setting, from his engagement with a wide variety of poetry to his relationship with his librettists. By approaching Britten's operas and songs through their literature, this book offers fresh insights into his vocal works. KATE KENNEDY is the Weinrebe Research Fellow in Life-writing at Wolfson College, Oxford, where she is an associate of both Music and English Faculties. She is a frequent broadcaster for the BBC and specialises in interdisciplinary biography and has published widely on twentieth century music and literature. Contributors:JOANNA BULLIVANT, PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK, NICHOLAS CLARK, MERVYN COOKE, DAVID FULLER, JOHN FULLER, PETER HAPPE, J. P. E. HARPER-SCOTT, JOHN HOPKINS, KATE KENNEDY, ADRIAN POOLE, HANNA ROCHLITZ, PHILIP RUPPRECHT, REBEKAH SCOTT, VICKISTROEHER, JUSTIN VICKERS, LUCY WALKER, BRIAN YOUNG Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kate Kennedy , Adrian Poole , Brian Young (Contributor) , David Fuller (Contributor)Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: The Boydell Press Volume: v. 13 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781783272853ISBN 10: 1783272856 Pages: 425 Publication Date: 18 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction - Kate Kennedy Britten and His Librettists: The Composer as Auteur - Mervyn Cooke Britten, Auden and the 1930s - John Fuller James, Britten, Piper and the Literary Supernatural: The Changing 'vision of evil' in The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave - Nick Clark 'Thought's Wildernesses': The Development of Britten's Nocturne from Library to Score - Kate Kennedy 'Reading at Intervals': Britten's Romantic Poetry - Brian Young Britten's Drops: The Lyric into Song - Rebekah Scott 'Without any tune': The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten's Interpretation of Poetry - Vicki P. Stroeher Britten and Modern Tragedy - Adrian Poole Settings from Boyhood - Lucy Walker 'Practical Jokes': Britten and Auden's Our Hunting Fathers Revisited - Joanna Bullivant Choice and Inevitability: The Moral Economy of Peter Grimes - Philip Ross Bullock Sin, Death, and Love: Britten's Holy Sonnets of John Donne - David Fuller Britten's Donne Meditation - Justin Vickers Scenes from Britten's Spring Symphony - Philip Rupprecht 'I have read Billy Budd': The Forster-Britten reading(s) of Melville - Hanna Rochlitz Miles Must Die: Ideological Uses of 'innocence' in Britten's The Turn of the Screw - Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: From Abraham and Isaac to 'The Nativity' - Peter Happe Ambiguous Venice - John Hopkins BibliographyReviewsThis is a comprehensive book of essays, illustrations and musical examples...It teems with perspectives, engrossing facts and excerpts from scores and will certainly make an informative read for Brittenites of all persuasions - from the amateur enthusiast through to the seasoned academic. BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY NEWSLETTER This authoritative collection of studies on a composer steeped in literature ancient and modern should engage the interest not just of Britten specialists but of all those fascinated by the theory and practice of setting words to music. FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Of particular interest are the essays that illuminate Britten's compositional methods of setting text, methods that have their origin in his intimate interaction with a wide variety of poetic and literary works. . . . Highly recommended. [M. Neil, emeritus] CHOICE This is a comprehensive book of essays, illustrations and musical examples...It teems with perspectives, engrossing facts and excerpts from scores and will certainly make an informative read for Brittenites of all persuasions - from the amateur enthusiast through to the seasoned academic. BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY NEWSLETTER Author InformationLucy Walker is a freelance writer, researcher and public speaker on classical music, specialising in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. PHILIP ROSS BULLOCK is Professor of Russian and Music at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Russian at Wadham College, Oxford. Previously for Boydell,he has published a translation of the correspondencence between Rosa Newmarch and Jean Sibelius, and in 2016, his biography of Tchaikovsky was published in the Critical Lives series by Reaktion. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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