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On Mahler and Britten
Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his Seventieth Birthday
Av Philip Reed
Häftad, 1995
451 kr
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Critical essays and studies reflecting the latest thinking on two major figures in 20c music.In this Festschrift for Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten, distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world …
Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978
Av Peter Pears, Philip Reed m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
381 kr
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Travel diaries reveal musical inspiration, personal encounters, notes on performances.This volume brings together all the travel diaries of Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986), principal interpreter of Britten's works. Pears accompanied Britten on many of his trips and the record of their tour of the Far …
Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936
Av Donald Mitchell, Alan Hollinghurst m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
354 kr
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A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period.Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden were key figures of the 1930s, and here Donald Mitchell traces their lives during one crucial year, 1936. They worked hard to establish …
Making of Peter Grimes: Essays
Av Paul Banks
Häftad, 1997
389 kr
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Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera.The premiere of Peter Grimes on 7 June 1945 announced the emergence of the first great composer of opera in English since Purcell. Surviving documents offer evidence of the …
Britten and the Far East
Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten
Av Mervyn Cooke
Häftad, 1998
382 kr
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Investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten's composition.Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to …
My Beloved Man
The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Av Vicki, Vicki Stroeher, Vicki Stroeher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
462 kr
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It's a life of the two of us.' The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.To read these letters is to climb up a wall and peer into the secret garden of two giants.' From the Foreword by FIONA SHAWThis volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence …
Benjamin Britten and Russia
Av Cameron Pyke
Inbunden, 2016
606 kr
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Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten.This book explores Benjamin Britten's creative relationship with Russia throughout his life by examining his engagement with Russian composers, musicians and writers in the context of …
Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art
Av Vicki Stroeher, Justin Vickers
Inbunden, 2017
1737 kr
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Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten.Benjamin Britten Studies brings together established authorities and new voices to offer a fresh perspective on previous scholarship models and a re-contextualization of previously held …
Literary Britten
Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works
Av Kate, Kennedy, Kate Kennedy
Inbunden, 2018
1737 kr
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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, …
British Music after Britten
Inbunden, 2020
1338 kr
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By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the work of those who survived and succeeded him.This collection of revised reprints of essays, reviews and analyses first published between 1995 and 2018 …
Britten’s Donne, Hardy and Blake Songs
Cyclic Design and Meaning
Inbunden, 2023
1302 kr
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Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William Blake solo song cycles.By questioning when a group of songs ought to be understood not merely as a collection, but as a cycle, Sly shows that Britten's personal …
Britten, Opera and Film
Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw from Stage to Screen
Av Peter Auker
Inbunden, 2025
1272 kr
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Investigates cinematic qualities in opera and reveals why Benjamin Britten's operas lend themselves to TV and film interpretations.Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James's ghost story, has been described by many critics and commentators as cinematic. Along with …
Benjamin Britten
New Perspectives on His Life and Work
Inbunden, 2009
1272 kr
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An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of a future collaboration.Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on his Life and Work reveals the extent …
Imogen Holst: A Life in Music
Revised Edition
Häftad, 2010
394 kr
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This paperback edition is updated to include new insights into Holst's life and work resulting from the discovery of important unseen archival materials.Imogen Holst was one of the most wide-ranging and highly regarded of musicians. Popular with all who knew her, she was intensively protective of …
Britten's Gloriana: Essays and Sources
Av Paul Banks
Häftad, 2012
309 kr
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A collection of essays which explore the cultural background and creative evolution of this once-overlooked work.This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991.Glorianahas been a …
Beyond Britten: The Composer and the Community
Av Peter Wiegold, Ghislaine Kenyon
Inbunden, 2015
460 kr
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Leading composers, producers and writers consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain today and over the last fifty years.With his Aspen award lecture (1964), Benjamin Britten expressed a unique commitment to community and place. This book revisits this seminal lecture, but then …
