Benjamin Britten The Turn Of The Screw

Author : Patricia Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521283566

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Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw by Patricia Howard Pdf

This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of the opera Oames's novella), the structure of the libretto, and the technique by which a short story was transformed into an opera. The central chapter, on the musical style and structures of the opera, includes an account of the composition process deduced from early sketches of the work by John Evans, an analysis of the unique form of the opera with a more detailed examination of the last scene by Patricia Howard, and an account of the significance and effect of the orchestration by Christopher Palmer. Finally, Patricia Howard traces the stage history of the work, from its initial reception in Venice in 1954, through some seminal reinterpretations in the 1960s to its present established position in the repertoire. The book is generously illustrated and there is also a bibliography and discography.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180943772

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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Pdf

A young woman starts working as a governess at the isolated estate of Bly outside London. There, she is greeted by the two orphaned children she is to take care of, an ambiguous housekeeper, and an icy, supernatural atmosphere. Soon, a couple of peculiar figures begin to appear unannounced, and a creeping horror tightens its grip on both the governess and the reader. The Turn of the Screw is one of the most classic ghost stories of all time, written by the master of the psychological novel, Henry James. Perhaps more than anyone from his time, James came to inspire our modern horror mythologies, from the image of innocence as evil to schizoid labyrinths a la Roman Polanski. HENRY JAMES [1843-1916] was born in New York but emigrated early to Europe. He is one of the most important names in Anglo-Saxon literature, renowned as a great stylist and as a link between the Victorian era and modernism. Among his most famous novels are The American [1877], Portrait of a Lady [1881], and especially The Turn of the Screw [1898].

Author : Benjamin Britten,Myfanwy Piper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Operas
ISBN : UOM:39015070680486

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The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten,Myfanwy Piper Pdf

Author : John Bridcut
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571260928

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Britten's Children by John Bridcut Pdf

Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, 'this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it'. Since making the film, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. The documentary Britten's Children won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2005 Award for Creative Communication: 'this serious and beautiful film explored one aspect of a composer's life in great depth. Avoiding the temptation of sensationalism, Britten's Children was imaginatively researched and both touching and revelatory'.

Author : Paul Kildea
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141924304

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Benjamin Britten by Paul Kildea Pdf

Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of figures such as Parry, Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. With Peter Grimes (1945), Billy Budd (1951) and The Turn of the Screw (1954), he arguably composed the last operas - from any composer in any country - which have entered both the popular consciousness and the musical canon. He did all this while carrying two disadvantages to worldly success - his passionately held pacifism, which made him suspect to the authorities during and immediately after the Second World War - and his homosexuality, specifically his forty-year relationship with Peter Pears, for whom many of his greatest operatic roles and vocal works were created. The atmosphere and personalities of Aldeburgh in his native Suffolk also form another wonderful dimension to the book. Kildea shows clearly how Britten made this creative community, notably with the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival and the building of Snape Maltings, but also how costly the determination that this required was. Above all, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into his creative process as we are ever likely to go. Kildea reads dozens of Britten's works with enormous intelligence and sensitivity, in a way which those without formal musical training can understand. It is one of the most moving and enjoyable biographies of a creative artist of any kind to have appeared for years. Paul Kildea is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about, in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include Selling Britten (2002) and (as editor) Britten on Music (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London.

Author : Eric Walter White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520048946

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Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas by Eric Walter White Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139441285

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Britten's Musical Language by Philip Rupprecht Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Brett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520246102

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Music and Sexuality in Britten by Philip Brett Pdf

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Author : Henry James
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473395770

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Owen Wingrave (1892) by Henry James Pdf

This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1892 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : D. J. Hoek
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461700791

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Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 by D. J. Hoek Pdf

This new volume incorporates all entries from the previous editions by Arthur Wenk, expanding to cover writings drawn from periodicals, theses, dissertations, books, and Festschriften from 1940 to 2000. Over 9,000 references to analyses of works by over 1,000 composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are included.

Author : Christopher Chowrimootoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520298651

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Middlebrow Modernism by Christopher Chowrimootoo Pdf

"At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This provocative study is situated at the intersection of the history, historiography, and aesthetics of twentieth-century music. It uses Benjamin Britten's operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving midcentury discussions of the 'middlebrow,' Christopher Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allowed audiences to have their modernist cake and eat it too: to revel in the pleasures of consonance, lyricism, and theatrical spectacle even while enjoying the prestige that came from rejecting them. By focusing on key moments when reigning aesthetic oppositions and hierarchies threatened to collapse, Middlebrow Modernism offers a powerful model for recovering shades of gray in the previously black-and-white historiographies of twentieth-century music"--Provided by publishe

Author : Peter J. Hodgson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135580377

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Benjamin Britten by Peter J. Hodgson Pdf

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 : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4451741

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The Two Magics by Henry James Pdf

Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198167148

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On Music by Benjamin Britten Pdf

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.

Author : John Harding
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007315062

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Florence and Giles by John Harding Pdf

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher