Beyond Britten
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Beyond Britten
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Author : Peter Wiegold
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015
Beyond Britten written by Peter Wiegold and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With his Aspen award lecture (1964), Benjamin Britten expressed a unique commitment to community and place. This book revisits this seminal lecture, but then uses it as a starting point of reflection, inviting leading composers, producers and writers to consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain in the last fifty years. Colin Matthews, Jonathan Reekie and John Barber reflect on Britten's aspirations as a composer and the impact of his legacy, and Gillian Moore surveys the ideals of composers since the 1960s. Eugene Skeef and Tommy Pearson discuss the influence of the London Sinfonietta, while Katie Tearle reviews the tradition of community opera at Glyndebourne. Nigel Osborne and Judith Webster explore the role of music as therapy, and James Redwood, Amoret Abis, Sean Gregory and Douglas Mitchell look at music in the classroom and creative workshops. John Sloboda, Detta Danford and Natasha Zielazinski discuss collaboration in music-making and ways of facilitating exchanges between the composer and the audience, while Christopher Fox and Howard Skempton examine the role of modernism and the use of 'other', radical techniques to stimulate new dialogues between composer and community. Peter Wiegold and Amoret Abis interview Sir Harrison Birtwistle, John Woolrich and Phillip Cashian, and Wiegold discusses his formative experiences in encountering music-making in other cultures. All of these approaches to the role and identity of the composer throw a different light on how we address 'the composer and the community': the varied, sometimes contradictory, motivations of composers; the role of music in 'enhancing lives'; the concept of 'outreach' and the different ways this is pursued; and, finally, the meaning of 'community'. Underpinning each are genuine questions about the relationship of arts to society. This book will appeal not only to composers, performers and practitioners of contemporary music but to anyone interested in the changes in twentieth-century music practice, music in education, and the role of music and the arts in the wider community and society. PETER WIEGOLD is a composer, conductor and the director of Club In gales and the Institute of Composing. He is a Research Professor of Music at Brunel University, and also director of the 'Brunel Institute for Contemporary Middle-Eastern Music' (BICMEM). GHISLAINE KENYON is an author, freelance arts education consultant and curator.
Beyond Britten S Boys
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Author : Mackenzie Stratton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Beyond Britten S Boys written by Mackenzie Stratton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
Can music intended for children have a place in a feminist choral classroom? What social considerations must we take in teaching music intended for children to adults? Does singing songs intended for children, songs which may have themes of innocence and purity, with adults enforce gendered stereotypes? How can conductors use ideas of play in music intended for children to create empowering choral spaces for women and gender minorities? These questions lie at the core of my thesis, "Beyond Britten's Boys: Performing Britten with Adult Treble Choirs." Benjamin Britten's treble music, most of which is intended for boy treble singers, is some of the most beloved music in treble choir repertoire. As such, choirs of adult treble singers (soprano and altos of all gender identities) perform Britten's treble choir music frequently. Because of the ties in Britten's music to ideas of innocence and play, I am examining how adult treble choirs can continue to sing this music, with consideration to social implications of their composition (for boy trebles) and thematic material (reinforcing ideas of innocence and purity). Furthermore, I am examining the role this music can have in the adult treble choir classroom, creating conductor's guides focusing on play and feminist pedagogy. Overall, my thesis examines Benjamin Britten's body of music for treble voices from historical, theoretical, pedagogical, and social perspectives. Chapter One examines Britten's ties to childhood, and how his lasting relationship to childhood contributed to his composition for children and preferred treble sound. Chapter Two analyzes six works featuring child treble voices, arguing that childhood is a musical topos for Britten, and that understanding his musical language for childhood can help conductors in determining how to approach performing his work with adult treble choirs. Chapter Three discusses feminist pedagogy and social issues specific to adult treble choirs, culminating in a conductor's analysis for performing two of Britten's treble choral works with adult treble choirs. This thesis aims to contribute new ideas to the body of Britten scholarship, particularly in using topic theory and analyzing his works in context of adult treble choirs. In addition, it aims to contribute to existing conversations on repertoire for treble choirs open doors for similar study of other bodies of work for treble choirs.
Film Music And Beyond
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Author : Hans Keller
language : en
Publisher: Plumbago Books and Arts
Release Date : 2006
Film Music And Beyond written by Hans Keller and has been published by Plumbago Books and Arts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Music categories.
Between 1946 and 1959, the most outspoken voice in British film music was that of the Austrian emigre Hans Keller. This work is a collection of writings on film music by the celebrated critic.
Benjamin Britten
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Author : Neil Powell
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-01-31
Benjamin Britten written by Neil Powell and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a dentist father and amateur musician mother. After studying at the Royal College of Music, he became a vital part of London’s creative and intellectual life during the 1930s, collaborating with W. H. Auden and meeting his lifelong partner, the tenor Peter Pears. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britten and Pears were already in America, earning a precarious living as freelance musicians before re-crossing the Atlantic by ship in the perilous days of 1942. But the east coast of England was where Britten, as he himself said, belonged: this was where he returned to write his most famous opera, Peter Grimes, and – with Pears and Eric Crozier – to found the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948. In the years that followed, his worldwide reputation grew steadily, helped by a busy schedule of international tours and, for many, crowned by the extraordinary success of his War Requiem. Meanwhile, his festival went from strength to strength, its progress symbolised by the opening of Snape Maltings Concert Hall in 1967. Britten was a mass of paradoxes: a solitary, introspective thinker who came to ebullient life in the company of young people, for whom he composed some of his most memorable works; a man of the political left who was on the friendliest terms with members of the royal family; a composer inspired by some of the twentieth century’s deepest preoccupations who combined innovation with a profound understanding of musical tradition. Devoted to his friends, protégés and fellow musicians, he was, above all, someone who lived for music. Neil Powell’s book is the landmark biography for Britten’s centenary year: a subtle and moving portrait of a brilliant, complex and ultimately loveable man.
Benjamin Britten In Context
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Author : Vicki P Stroeher
language : en
Publisher: Composers in Context
Release Date : 2022-04-21
Benjamin Britten In Context written by Vicki P Stroeher and has been published by Composers in Context this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-21 with Music categories.
A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.
Britten S Donne Hardy And Blake Songs
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Author : Gordon Cameron Sly
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2023-04-18
Britten S Donne Hardy And Blake Songs written by Gordon Cameron Sly and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-18 with Music categories.
Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William Blake solo song cycles. By questioning when a group of songs ought to be understood not merely as a collection, but as a cycle, Sly shows that Britten's personal selection and arrangement is indispensable to understanding these cycles' extra-musical communication. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Winter Words (poems by Hardy) and Songs and Proverbs of William Blake - composed in 1945, 1953 and 1965 respectively - each represent a philosophical exploration. The terrains set out by the three poets are distinct, but also engage one another in important and unexpected ways. Their cyclic architectures are expressed not only in their poetic arrangement, but in their musical settings. Key relationships and motive remain central for Britten. Keys convey a network of interconnections, create groupings of songs, and establish levels of tonal affinity or distance. Motive - often intervals that can fit into any melodic, harmonic or rhythmic context - is used to create aural affinities between or among individual songs. This book also offers a broader narrative revealing Britten's evolving philosophical convictions in post-war Britain. While it may not be the case that Britten intended any broader philosophical comment, the works together outline the cold and brittle state that emerges from loss and aligns with their composer's increasingly stark outlook on humanity.
Benjamin Britten Studies
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Author : Vicki P. Stroeher
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2017
Benjamin Britten Studies written by Vicki P. Stroeher and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Music categories.
Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten.
Music And Sexuality In Britten
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Author : Philip Brett
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-11-17
Music And Sexuality In Britten written by Philip Brett and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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Britten S Musical Language
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Author : Philip Rupprecht
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-11-23
Britten S Musical Language written by Philip Rupprecht and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-23 with Music categories.
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.
Death In Venice And Beyond
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Death In Venice And Beyond written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.