Britten S Donne Hardy And Blake Songs

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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 His Life And Operas

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Author : Eric Walter White
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1983

Benjamin Britten His Life And Operas written by Eric Walter White 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 1983 with Music categories.

This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.

Britten Voice And Piano

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Author : Graham Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-03

Britten Voice And Piano written by Graham Johnson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Music categories.

This collection of eight 'lectures' by internationally acclaimed pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the Benjamin Britten festival in 2001. The focus of the book is on Britten's songs, starting with his earliest compositions in the genre. Graham Johnson suggests that the nature of Britten's creativity is especially apparent in his setting of poetry, that he becomes the poet's alter-ego. A chapter on Britten's settings of Auden and Eliot explores the particular influences these writers brought to bear at opposite poles of the composer's life. The inspiration of fellow musicians is also discussed, with a chapter devoted to Britten's time in Russia and his friendship with the Rostropovitch family. Closer to home, the book places in context Britten's folksong settings, illustrating how he subverted the English folksong tradition by refusing to accept previous definitions of what constituted national loyalty. Drawing on letters and diaries, and featuring a number of previously unpublished photographs, this book illuminates aspects of Britten's songs from the personal perspective of the pianist who worked closely with Peter Pears after Benjamin Britten was unable to perform through illness. Johnson worked with Pears on learning the role of Aschenbach in 'Death in Venice' and was official pianist for the first master class given by Peter Pears at Snape in 1972.

Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake

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Author : Benjamin Britten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965

Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake written by Benjamin Britten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Songs (Medium voice) with piano categories.

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.

Benjamin Britten S Poets

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Author : Boris Ford
language : en
Publisher: Carcanet
Release Date : 2013-04-10

Benjamin Britten S Poets written by Boris Ford and has been published by Carcanet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-10 with Poetry categories.

Benjamin Britten was a great reader of poetry: it affected his musical genius and style of composition. Friendships and collaborations with writers - Auden and E.M. Forster among them - left a mark. No other composer, not even Schubert or Schumann, set poems of such range and quality. All the poems Britten et are included in this unique anthology, reissued to mark the centenary of Britten's birth.

Britten Voice Piano

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Author : Graham Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003

Britten Voice Piano written by Graham Johnson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.

This collection of eight 'lectures' by internationally acclaimed pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the Benjamin Britten festival in 2001. The focus of the book is on Britten's songs, starting with his earliest compositions in the genre. Graham Johnson suggests that the nature of Britten's creativity is especially apparent in his setting of poetry, that he becomes the poet's alter-ego. A chapter on Britten's settings of Auden and Eliot explores the particular influences these writers brought to bear at opposite poles of the composer's life. The inspiration of fellow musicians is also discussed, with a chapter devoted to Britten's time in Russia and his friendship with the Rostropovitch family. Closer to home, the book places in context Britten's folksong settings, illustrating how he subverted the English folksong tradition by refusing to accept previous definitions of what constituted national loyalty. Drawing on letters and diaries, and featuring a number of previously unpublished photographs, this book illuminates aspects of Britten's songs from the personal perspective of the pianist who worked closely with Peter Pears after Benjamin Britten was unable to perform through illness. Johnson worked with Pears on learning the role of Aschenbach in 'Death in Venice' and was official pianist for the first master class given by Peter Pears at Snape in 1972.

Songs By John Ireland And Benjamin Britten To Poems By Thomas Hardy

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Author : Mark Alexander Whitmire
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Songs By John Ireland And Benjamin Britten To Poems By Thomas Hardy written by Mark Alexander Whitmire and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Composition (Music) categories.

Music And Musicians

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Author : Evan Senior
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971

Music And Musicians written by Evan Senior and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Music categories.

The Rest Is Noise

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Author : Alex Ross
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2007-10-16

The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-16 with Music categories.

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.