Britten's Musical Language

Britten's Musical Language

Author: Philip Rupprecht

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-23

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1139441280

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Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song and provides close interpretative studies of the major scores.


On Music

On Music

Author: Benjamin Britten

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780198167143

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Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a major factor in the transformation during his lifetime of the structure of the art-music industry. This book, by bringing together all his published articles, unpublished speeches, drafts, and transcriptions of numerous radio interviews, explores the paradox of a reluctant yet influential cultural commentator, artist, and humanist. Whether talking about his own music, about the role of the artist in society, about music criticism, or wading into a debate on Soviet ideology at the height of the cold war, Britten always gave a performance which reinforced the notion of a private man who nonetheless saw the importance of public disclosure.


Britten's Musical Language

Britten's Musical Language

Author: Philip Ernst Rupprecht

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780521631549

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Examines Britten's fusion of verbal and musical sound in opera and song.


Essays on Benjamin Britten from a Centenary Symposium

Essays on Benjamin Britten from a Centenary Symposium

Author: Quinn Patrick Ankrum

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1443896020

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Coming to terms with Britten’s music is no easy task. The complex, often contradictory language associated with Britten’s style likely stems from his double interest in progressive composition and immediate connection with a broad, popular audience – an apparent paradox in the splintered musical culture of the 20th century – as well as from complicated truths in his own life, such as his love for a country that accepted neither his sexuality nor his politics. As a result, the attempt to describe his music can tell us as much about our own biases and the inadequacies of our analytic tools as it does about the music itself. Such audits of our scholarly language and strategies are vital in light of the still-murky view we have of twentieth century music. This opportunity for academic self-reflection is the reason Britten studies such as this book are so important. The essays included here challenge assumptions about musical constructs, relationships between text and music, and the influences of age, spirituality, and personal relationships on compositional technique. Part One offers nine essays originally compiled for a symposium designed to recognize the composer’s unique and varied contributions to music. The authors include performers, musicologists, and music theorists, and their work will appeal to a wide diversity of readers. The topics and methodologies range from archival research and analysis of text and music to theoretical modelling using techniques such as set theory, metric theory, and prolongation. While the papers were initially conceived in isolation from one another, the collaborative focus of the symposium created opportunities for authors to expose points of intersection. This deliberate reconciliation of lines of inquiry has yielded a more balanced and unified collection of essays than typically found in a simple record of proceedings. Furthermore, the chapters presented here benefit from the wealth of Britten research produced since the 2013 centenary. Part Two provides an account of the symposium performances and lecture recitals that accompanied and enriched the academic presentations. The reader will encounter fully the journey taken by symposium presenters, participants, and attendees by reviewing the concerts, lecture recitals, and papers in the context of the full symposium program.


Rethinking Britten

Rethinking Britten

Author: Philip Rupprecht

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0199794812

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This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career.


Ideology in Britten's Operas

Ideology in Britten's Operas

Author: J. P. E. Harper-Scott

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1108416365

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This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable - for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.


Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Author: Peter John Hodgson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780815317951

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This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer, including bibliographies, catalogs, letters and documents, conference reports, biographies, and studies of Britten's music.


Benjamin Britten Studies

Benjamin Britten Studies

Author: Vicki P. Stroeher

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 1783271957

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The shock of exile / Paul Kildea -- Britten, Paul Bunyan, and American-ness / Vicki P. Stroeher -- Collaborating with Corwin, CBS, and the BBC / Jenny Doctor -- An empire built on shingle / Justin Vickers -- Save me from those suffering boys / Byron Adams -- Britten's (and Pears's) Beloved / Louis Niebur -- Notes of unbelonging / Lloyd Whitesell -- Take these tokens that you may feel us near / Colleen Renihan -- Traces of Nō / Kevin Salfen -- Britten and the augmented sixth / Christopher Mark -- Quickenings of the heart / Philip Rupprecht -- Reviving Paul Bunyan / Danielle Ward-Griffin -- Striking a compromise / Thornton Miller -- From Boosey & Hawkes to Faber Music / Nicholas Clark -- The man himself / Lucy Walker -- Epilogue / Vicki P. Stroeher and Justin Vickers


Britten's Unquiet Pasts

Britten's Unquiet Pasts

Author: Heather Wiebe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0521194679

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Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.