Author: Mary Margaret DundorePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
1. The choral music of Benjamin Britten
Author: Mary Margaret DundoreThe Choral Music of Benjamin Britten
Author: Richard CoxPublisher:
ISBN: 9780937276419
Category : Choral music
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Jubilate Deo
Author: Benjamin BrittenThe sacred choral music of Benjamin Britten
Author: Mary Clyde CappsBenjamin Britten's Sacred Music for Choir and Organ
Author: Robert M. CampbellBenjamin Britten, His Life and Operas
Author: Eric Walter WhitePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520048942
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.
The Music of Benjamin Britten
Author: Peter EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Peter Evans discusses all the published compositions in subdivisions of genre and period, and devotes a separate chapter to each opera. With the help of over 300 music examples and diagrams, he demonstrates Britten's mastery of the art of composition - tonal and harmonic structures, thematic cast and transformation, textual variety and the imaginative deployment of voices and instruments. Since this book's appearance in 1979, Britten's publishers have made available a considerable number of works withheld during the composer's lifetime; some are juvenilia, but others date from a late as the Peter Grimes period. In a postscript to this first paperback edition, Peter Evans assesses the creative stature of these works and their significance in Britten's development. The catalogue of works now includes these additional titles, and the selective bibliography has been revised.
Britten: War Requiem
Author: Mervyn CookePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521446334
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Widely regarded as one of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century, Britten's War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. It provocatively juxtaposes the vivid anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass in a passionate outcry against man's inhumanity to man. This handbook explores the background to Britten's use of the Owen texts, charting the development of the composer's lifelong pacifist beliefs and (in a chapter contributed by Philip Reed of the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh) detailing the process of composition from hitherto unpublished correspondence and manuscript sources. The musical structure is investigated, and the work's compositional idiom related to Britten's output as a whole. A concluding chapter surveys the fluctuating critical responses to the score, and includes discussion of the composer's legendary 1963 recording and Derek Jarman's controversial interpretation on film.
Benjamin Britten in Context
Author: Vicki P StroeherPublisher: Composers in Context
ISBN: 1108496695
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.
Author: Benjamin Britten