Title: The music of Britten and Tippett :
Authors: Whittall, Arnold.
Date: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: vii, 314 pages : illustrations, portrait, music ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: The Thirties and the War -- Britten: Four early works (1931-3) -- Tippett: String Quartet No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 1 (1934-7) -- Britten: Our Hunting Fathers to the Violin Concerto (1936-9) -- Tippett in 1939: The Concerto for Double String Orchestra -- Britten in America: 1939-42 -- Tippett: An oratorio, a string quartet and a cantata (1939-43) -- Britten's return: 1942-3 -- Tippett and symphonic form (1944-6) -- Postscript: The Britten legacy -- After the War (1944-63) -- Britten: Peter Grimes (1944-5) -- Britten: The Donne Sonnets and the String Quartet No. 2 (1945) -- Britten: The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring (1946-7) -- Britten: From Albert Herring to Billy Budd (1947-51) -- Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage (1946-52) -- Britten: From Canticle II to Winter Words (1952-3) -- Tippett: From the Corelli Fantasia to the Piano Concerto (1953-5) -- Britten: The Turn of the Screw to Noye's Fludde (1953-7) -- Tippett: Symphony No. 2 (1956-7) -- Britten: The Nocturne to the War Requiem (1958-61) -- Tippett: King Priam (1958-61) -- Tippett: After King Priam (1962-3) -- Patterns of Transformation (1963-80) -- Britten: The Cello Symphony and Curlew River (1963-4) -- Tippett: The Vision of Saint Augustine (1963-5) -- Britten: Blake, Pushkin and the second Church Parable (1965-6) -- Britten: From The Prodigal Son to Who are these children? (1967-9) -- Tippett: The Knot Garden and Songs for Dov (1966-70) -- Britten: From Owen Wingrave to Death in Venice (1970-3) -- Tippett: Symphony No. 3, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1970-3).
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation.; Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.; Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Works.; Music--20th century--History and criticism.; Music--20th century.; Music--England--20th century--History and criticism; Music--England--History and criticism.; Tippett, Michael, 1905- Works.; Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998--Criticism and interpretation.; Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998.