The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten,9780521573849

The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

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ISBN13: 9780521573849
ISBN10: 052157384X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-06-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This is a comprehensive guide to Britten's work, aimed both at the nonspecialist and the music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.

Table of Contents

List of plates
vi(1)
Notes on contributors vii(3)
Acknowledgements x(1)
List of abbreviations xi(2)
Chronology xiii
Introduction 1(10)
Mervyn Cooke
Part one Apprenticeship 11(70)
1 Juvenilia (1922-1932)
11(25)
Christopher Mark
2 Britten, Auden and 'otherness'
36(18)
Paul Kildea
3 Britten in the cinema: Coal Face
54(27)
Philip Reed
Part Two The Operas 81(86)
4 `He descended into Hell': salvation denied
81(14)
Peter Grimes
Ellen Orford
Stephen Arthur Allen
5 The chamber operas
95(18)
Arnold Whittall
6 Gloriana: Britten's 'slighted child'
113(16)
Antonia Malloy-Chirgwin
7 Britten and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
129(18)
Mervyn Cooke
8 Eros in life and death: Billy Budd and Death in Venice
147(20)
Clifford Hindley
Part three Perspectives 167(112)
9 Distant horizons: from Pagodaland to the Church Parables
167(21)
Mervyn Cooke
10 Violent climates
188(29)
Donald Mitchell
11 Britten as symphonist
217(16)
Arved Ashby
12 The concertos and early orchestral scores: aspects of style and aesthetic
233(12)
Eric Roseberry
13 The chamber music
245(15)
Philip Rupprecht
14 Music for voices
260(19)
Ralph Woodward
Part four The composer in the community 279(39)
15 Britten and the world of the child
279(13)
Stephen Arthur Allen
16 Old songs in new contexts: Britten as arranger
292(14)
Eric Roseberry
17 Aldeburgh
306(12)
Judith LeGrove
Notes 318(25)
Index of Britten's works 343(3)
General index 346

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