| Britten's Musical Language Contributor(s): Rupprecht, Philip (Author), Whittall, Arnold (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521031036 ISBN-13: 9780521031035 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $33.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers fresh perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song. It provides close interpretative studies of the major scores (including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, War Requiem, Curlew River and Death in Venice) and explores Britten's ability to fashion complex and mysterious symbolic dramas from the interplay of texted song and wordless discourse of motives and themes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 780.92 |
| Series: Music in the Twentieth Century |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.30 lbs) 372 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers fresh perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song. It provides close interpretative studies of the major scores (including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, War Requiem, Curlew River and Death in Venice) and explores Britten's ability to fashion complex and mysterious symbolic dramas from the interplay of texted song and wordless discourse of motives and themes |
Contributor Bio(s): Rupprecht, Philip: - Philip Rupprecht is Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written on Britten in a number of journals and is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten (1999). |