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Author : Vicki P. Stroeher,Justin Vickers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783271955
Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten.
Author : Peter John Hodgson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 0815317956
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.
Author : Peter J. Hodgson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135580308
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.
Author : Lucy Walker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843835165
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.
Author : Quinn Patrick Ankrum,David Forrest,Stacey Jocoy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443896023
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.
Author : Graham Elliott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191541711
Since Britten's death in 1976, numerous articles and books have been written about his life and work. Much has been made of the strong influences of his pacifism and his homosexuality. It is often suggested that Britten felt himself to be an outsider from 'normal' society, and that this accounts for the his concern to portray the 'outsider' in his operas. There is no doubt that this is an important aspect of Britten's art, but the present work attempts to show that his music embraces much wider and more universal concerns, and in addressing those concerns there is a clearly defined pattern of spiritual influence. Part One of the book examines Britten's early life, and the strong presence which the Church had in his childhood and adolescence. It explores the way in which certain spiritual influences were first manifested, and how, like the more specifically musical 'themes' which Donald Mitchell has noted, they can be traced throughout Britten's life and work. The author was privileged to have conversations with two clergymen who were influential in Britten's life, as well as gathering valuable insights through a long series of conversations with Sir Peter Pears. Part Two examines a wide range of the composer's music in which a spiritual dimension can be traced. The specifically liturgical music has received rather less critical notice than Britten's larger works. The music is discussed here, and shown to possess musical characteristics in common with the larger works. Britten could not be described as a conventional Christian; still less is it true to describe him, as Eric Walter White has done, as 'keen, wherever possible, to work within the framework of the Church of England'. Nevertheless, his spirituality was rooted in the religious experience of his childhood. This book seeks to demonstrate that Britten retained a sense of the Christian values absorbed in childhood and adolescence, and that these - along with the specifically Christian heritage of plainsong - were strongly influential in his choice and treatment of themes.
Author : Graham Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351218207
This collection of eight 'lectures' by internationally acclaimed pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the Benjamin Britten festival in 2001. The focus of the book is on Britten's songs, starting with his earliest compositions in the genre. Graham Johnson suggests that the nature of Britten's creativity is especially apparent in his setting of poetry, that he becomes the poet's alter-ego. A chapter on Britten's settings of Auden and Eliot explores the particular influences these writers brought to bear at opposite poles of the composer's life. The inspiration of fellow musicians is also discussed, with a chapter devoted to Britten's time in Russia and his friendship with the Rostropovitch family. Closer to home, the book places in context Britten's folksong settings, illustrating how he subverted the English folksong tradition by refusing to accept previous definitions of what constituted national loyalty. Drawing on letters and diaries, and featuring a number of previously unpublished photographs, this book illuminates aspects of Britten's songs from the personal perspective of the pianist who worked closely with Peter Pears after Benjamin Britten was unable to perform through illness. Johnson worked with Pears on learning the role of Aschenbach in 'Death in Venice' and was official pianist for the first master class given by Peter Pears at Snape in 1972.
Author : Philip Brett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520246102
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Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0851158307
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 achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music. Britten's visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent work: the techniques of Balinese gamelan music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential feature of Britten's compositional style, at their most potent in Death in Venice(1973). The No drama and Gagaku court music of Japan were the inspiration for the trilogy of church parables Britten composed in the 1960s. The precise nature of these influences is discussed; Britten's sporadic borrowings from Indian music are also fully analysed. There is a survey of critical responses to Britten's cross-cultural experiments. Dr MERVYN COOKE lectures in music at the University of Nottingham.
Author : Vicki P Stroeher,Justin Vickers
Publisher : Composers in Context
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108496698
A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.
Author : Cameron Pyke
Publisher : Aldeburgh Studies in Music
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1783271132
Explores Benjamin Britten's deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the 'Russian' Britten.
Author : Frank Mort
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135079925
Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521574765
The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and 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. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the cinema in the 1930s, his lifelong pacifism and his strong interest in the music of the Far East; other chapters include reassessments of his relationship with W. H. Auden and his attitude towards childhood, comprehensive analyses of major works and a concise history of the Aldeburgh Festival. 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.
Author : Paul Banks
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Britten, Benjamin
ISBN : 9780851153407
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 source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as a national opera of broad appeal by its authors, Benjamin Britten and William Plomer, but, despite wide coverage in the media, the opera failed to establish itself in the repertoire until a new production in 1966 revealed it to be a powerful and stageworthy work. In recent years it has attracted an increasing amount of scholarly attention. This volume offers essays by ROBERT HEWISON, PHILIP REED, ANTONIA MALLOY, DONALD MITCHELL and PETER EVANS which explore the opera's cultural background, the early stages of its creative evolution, the first critical responses, and various aspects of the work itself: these are supplemented by a list of source materials for the opera and the works derived from it, and an extensive bibliography.
Author : Peter Wiegold,Ghislaine Kenyon
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781843839651
Leading composers, producers and writers consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain today and over the last fifty years.