Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)

Synopsis

Introduction / Kate Kennedy -- Britten And His Librettists : The Composer As Auteur / Mervyn Cooke -- Britten, Auden And The 1930s / John Fuller -- James, Britten, Piper And The Literary Supernatural : The Changing Vision Of Evil In The Turn Of The Screw And Owen Wingrave / Nick Clark -- Thought's Wildernesses : The Development Of Britten's Nocturne From Library To Score / Kate Kennedy -- Reading At Intervals : Britten's Romantic Poetry / Brian Young -- Britten's Drops : The Lyric Into Song / Rebekah Scott -- Without Any Tune : The Role Of The Discursive Shift In Britten's Interpretation Of Poetry / Vicki P. Stroeher -- Britten And Modern Tragedy / Adrian Poole -- Settings From Boyhood / Lucy Walker -- Practical Jokes : Britten And Auden's Our Hunting Fathers Revisited / Joanna Bullivant -- Choice And Inevitability : The Moral Economy Of Peter Grimes / Philip Ross Bullock -- Sin, Death, And Love : Britten's Holy Sonnets Of John Donne / David Fuller -- Britten's Donne Meditation / Justin Vickers -- Scenes From Britten's Spring Symphony / Philip Rupprecht -- I Have Read Billy Budd : The Forster-britten Reading(s) Of Melville / Hanna Rochlitz -- Miles Must Die : Ideological Uses Of Innocence In Britten's The Turn Of The Screw / J.p.e. Harper-scott -- Benjamin Britten And Medieval Drama At Chester : From Abraham And Isaac To The Nativity / Peter Happe -- Ambiguous Venice / John Hopkins. Edited By Kate Kennedy. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 385-397) And Index.