Essays on Benjamin Britten from a centenary symposium / edited by David Forrest, Quinn Patrick Ankrum, Stacey Jocoy, and Emily Ahrens Yates.

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English
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  • Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
  • ©2017
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xi, 324 pages : music ; 21 cm

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    Notes
    "On the hundredth anniversary of Britten's birth [i.e. 2013], we set out to host a symposium ..."--Page 3.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index.
    Contents
    • Anthologizing Christmas : Britten's literacy and A boy was born / Kevin Salfen
    • The Violin suite, op. 6, and the road toward the Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge / Stacey Jocoy
    • For Peter : Britten's Michelangelo sonnets and the influence of Peter Pears / Anne Kissel
    • Priming meter and metric conflict in Britten's early vocal music / Stuart Paul Duncan
    • Framing the argument : the architecture of Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings / Gordon Sly
    • Britten's slippery semitone and motivic intertextuality in The poet's echo, op. 76, and Serenade, op. 31 / Clare Sher Ling Eng
    • Britten and the supernatural / David Forrest
    • Piano recitatives and late style in Death in Venice, op. 88 / Shersten Johnson
    • "Compassion with the abyss" : sensory estrangement in Britten's late works Death in Venice, op. 88, and Phaedra, op. 93 / Marianne Kielian-Gilbert
    • Concerts
    • Lecture recitals.
    ISBN
    • 1443886130 ((hardback))
    • 9781443886130 ((hardback))
    OCLC
    987424783
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