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Author:   Philip Rupprecht (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, Duke University, Durham, NC)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.505kg
ISBN:  

9780199794812

ISBN 10:   0199794812
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   19 September 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents ; Contributors ; Introduction: Britten's Music and its Audiences ; Philip Rupprecht ; I Public and Private ; 1 On Ambiguity in Britten ; Paul Kildea ; 2 ""O Hurry to the Feted Spot of your Deliberate Fall"": Death in Britten, 1936-1940 ; Stephen Arthur Allen ; 3 Love Knots: Britten, Pears, and the Sonnet ; Lloyd Whitesell ; II Opera ; 4 Britten, Grimes, and the ""Tuneful Air"" ; Arved Ashby ; 5 Post-War Women in Britten ; J.P.E. Harper-Scott ; 6 Be Flat or Be Natural? Pitch Symbolism in Britten's Operas ; Mervyn Cooke ; III Post-War Encounters ; 7 Britten and the Avant-Garde in the 1950s ; Philip Rupprecht ; 8 Curlew River and Cultural Encounter ; Heather Wiebe ; 9 Britten's Rhetoric of Resistance: the Works for Rostropovich ; Arnold Whittall ; IV Late Modern ; 10 An Excess of Less? Critiquing Britten's Late Song-Cycles ; Christopher Mark ; 11 Animating Owen Wingrave: Ghosts and Global Television ; Danielle Ward-Griffin ; 12 The Dye-line Rehearsal Scores for Death in Venice ; Christopher Wintle ; Works Cited ; Index"

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[M]asterfully blends multiple modes of inquiry and reestablishes Britten as a seminal composer of modernist and postmodern artistic accomplishment... Highly recommended. --Choice

Author Information

Philip Rupprecht is Associate Professor of Music at Duke University. He is the author of Britten's Musical Language (Cambridge) and co-editor of Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice (Steiner, 2012).

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