Benjamin Britten
Subtitle: new perspectives on his life and work
By: edited by Lucy Walker
Series: Aldeburgh studies in music -- v. 8
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781843835165
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Going behind Britten's back / Colin Matthews; title: Performing early Britten: Signs of promise and achievement in Poèmes nos. 4 and 5 (1927) / Sharon Choa; title: Shostakovich's Fourteenth symphony: A response to War requiem? / Cameron Pyke; title: Six metamorphoses after Ovid and the influence of classical mythology on Benjamin Britten / George Caird; title: Britten and the cinematic frame / David Crilly; title: Storms, laughter and madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and generic allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes / Jane Brandon; title: Dramatic invention in Myfanwy Piper's libretto for Owen Wingrave / Frances Spalding; title: 'The minstrel boy to the war is gone' : Father figures and fighting sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave / Arne Muus; title: Made you look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice / J.P.E. Harper-Scott; title: From 'The Borough' to Fraser Island / Claire Seymour; title: Britten and France, or the late emergence of a remarkable lyric universe / Maéna Py; title: Why did Benjamin Britten return to wartime England? / Brian McMahon.