Sea Changes Melville Forster Britten

Author : Hanna Rochlitz
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783863950453

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Sea-changes: Melville - Forster - Britten by Hanna Rochlitz Pdf

E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirmsthe Forsterian creed of salvation through personal relationships.This study presents an extensive exploration of Forster’s involvement in the interpretation, transformation and re-creation of Melville’s text. It situates the story of the Handsome Sailor in the wider context of Forster’s literary oeuvre, his life, and his lifewritings. In detailed readings, Billy Budd becomes a lens through which the themes, patterns and leitmotifs of Forsterian thought and creative imagination are brought into focus. A close re-examination of the libretto sketches serves to shed new light on the collaborative process in which Melville’s story was changed to fit an archetypal array of plot and character types that is central to Forster’s own storytelling.

Author : Hanna Rochlitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Libretto
ISBN : OCLC:1096238289

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Sea-changes: Melville - Forster - Britten by Hanna Rochlitz Pdf

E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirms the Forsterian creed of salvation through personal relationships. This study presents an extensive exploration of Forster’s involvement in the interpretation, transformation and re-creation of Melville’s text. It situates the story of the Handsome Sailor in the wider context of Forster’s literary oeuvre, his life, and his life writings. In detailed readings, Billy Budd becomes a lens through which the themes, patterns and leitmotifs of Forsterian thought and creative imagination are brought into focus. A close re-examination of the libretto sketches serves to shed new light on the collaborative process in which Melville’s story was changed to fit an archetypal array of plot and character types that is central to Forster’s own storytelling.

Author : Tsung-Han Tsai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108844314

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E. M Forster and Music by Tsung-Han Tsai Pdf

The first book focused on the political resonances of E. M. Forster's engagement with and representations of music.

Author : Nina Penner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253052421

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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater by Nina Penner Pdf

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.

Author : Vicki P Stroeher,Justin Vickers
Publisher : Composers in Context
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108496698

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Benjamin Britten in Context by Vicki P Stroeher,Justin Vickers Pdf

A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.

Author : J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108416368

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Ideology in Britten's Operas by J. P. E. Harper-Scott Pdf

This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable - for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.

Author : Jonathan Dunsby,Jonathan Goldman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580465625

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The Dawn of Music Semiology by Jonathan Dunsby,Jonathan Goldman Pdf

Showcases the energy and diversity of the young field of music semiology, appealing to readers who want to explore the meaning of music in our lives.

Author : Benjamin Britten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:86049302

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Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten Pdf

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521574765

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The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten by Mervyn Cooke Pdf

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 : Carol Gilligan,David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108470650

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Darkness Now Visible by Carol Gilligan,David A. J. Richards Pdf

Darkness Now Visible addresses readers who are concerned about the future of democracy in the US and elsewhere. This book offers a bold and original thesis and explains why feminism, joining men and women, is the key to resistance.

Author : David A. J. Richards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107129108

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Why Love Leads to Justice by David A. J. Richards Pdf

This book tells the stories of notable historical figures whose resistance of patriarchal laws transformed ethical, political, and legal standards.

Author : Mary Lago
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780826261014

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Biographical Passages by Mary Lago Pdf

Author : Ruth A. Solie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520201469

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Musicology and Difference by Ruth A. Solie Pdf

Collection of essays addressing Western and non-Western music, exploring questions of gender and sexuality

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004333994

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Literature and Musical Adaptation by Anonim Pdf

It can safely be said that when literary texts are utilized or adapted by a musician to create a new work of art, it is seldom that a diminished or lessened product results. Rather, such a merging usually enlarges and enhances both text and tune, perhaps significantly changing the message of the original. Discovering exactly what the new form has to offer and how it relates to the text or melody that preceded it is often a daunting task, requiring a close examination of both the author’s and the composer’s intent. The essays in this collection offer an analysis of several adaptations, some successful, some not so successful, and attempt to assess just what the musicians or writers have modified or changed from to the original as they re-form it into an altogether different media. Ranging from Pasternak’s appropriation of Tchaikovsky to Britten’s operatic versions of Billy Budd and the Turn of the Screw, from Celan’s use of fugal technique in his “Todesfuge” to the way that the musicianship of several women writers found voice in their writing, a broad spectrum of collaborations is examined. As readers examine an author’s respect for a long dead musician (Hopkins’ admiration of Purcell) or as they discover how John Harbison worked to transform Fitzgerald’s musicality in The Great Gatsby, it will be evident that musical adaptations often provide a richness that the originals did not possess and that the potential for greatness is heightened when the arts intersect.

Author : Philip Brett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,6 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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