Benjamin Britten : new perspectives on his life and work / edited by Lucy Walker.

Other author Walker, Lucy (Lucy S.), editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoWoodbridge : Boydell Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiii, 191 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976--Criticism and interpretation.

SeriesAldeburgh studies in music ; v. 8
Aldeburgh studies in music ; v. 8. ^A324301
Contents Introduction / Lucy Walker -- Going behind Britten's back / Colin Matthews -- Performing early Britten: signs of promise and achievement in Poemes nos. 4 and 5 (1927) / Sharon Choa -- Shostakovich's fourteenth symphony: a response to War requiem? / Cameron Pyke -- Six metamorphoses after Ovid and the influence of classical mythology on Benjamin Britten / George Caird -- Britten and the cinematic frame / David Crilly -- Storms, laughter and madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and generic allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes / Jane Brandon -- Dramatic invention in Myfanwy Piper's libretto for Owen Wingrave / Frances Spalding -- 'The minstrel boy to the war is gone': Father figures and fighting sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave / Arne Muus -- Made you look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice / J.P.E. Harper-Scott -- From 'The Borough' to Fraser Island / Claire Seymour -- Britten and France, or the late emergence of a remarkable lyric universe / Maena Py -- Why did Benjamin Britten return to wartime England? / Brian McMahon.
Abstract This volume reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The volume engages with juvenilia and other orchestral works from the 1920s and examines the broad range of influences on Britten.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010560133
ISBN9781843835165 (hbk.)
ISBN1843835169 (hbk.)

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Music Music Stacks ML410.B853 B44 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold