Essential Britten
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Essential Britten
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Author : John Bridcut
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-10-30
Essential Britten written by John Bridcut and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-30 with Music categories.
John Bridcut, author of the acclaimed 'Britten's Children', has included significant fresh material which will make the book indispensable for Britten aficionados as well as for those who are discovering the composer's music for the first time. This guide is all about finding a way into Britten's music. An outline of planned chapters: - The Top Ten Britten pieces - Critics' First Impressions - Britten's Life - Britten and Pears - The things they said - The Music (stage works, choral works, songs, chamber music, orchestral works) - The Interpreters of Britten's work - Britten as Performer - The Impresario (English Opera Group and Aldeburgh Festival) - Britten's Homes - Trivial Pursuits
Rethinking Britten
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Author : Philip Rupprecht
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-30
Rethinking Britten written by Philip Rupprecht and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-30 with Music categories.
Rethinking Britten offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the 20th century. In twelve essays, a diverse group of contributors--both established authorities and leading younger voices--explore a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's extensive oeuvre across a range of genres, including opera, song cycle, and concert music. Well informed by earlier writings on the composer's professional career and private life, Rethinking Britten also uncovers many fresh lines of inquiry, from the Lord Chamberlain's last-minute censorship of the Rape of Lucretia libretto to psychoanalytic understandings of Britten's staging of gender roles; from the composer's delight in schoolboy humor to his operatic revival of Purcellian dance rhythms; from his creative responses to Cold-War-era internationalism to his dealings with BBC Television. Each essay blends awareness of overarching contexts with insights into particular expressive achievements. Balancing biographical, archival, and analytic commentary with cultural and historical criticism, Rethinking Britten broadens the interpretive context surrounding all phases of Britten's career and is essential reading for scholars and fans alike.
Britten And The Far East
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Author : Mervyn Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1998
Britten And The Far East written by Mervyn Cooke and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten's composition. Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book is the first to investigate the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian music. Britten's visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent work: the techniques of Balinese gamelan music were used in the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1957), and then became an essential feature of Britten's compositional style, at their most potent in Death in Venice(1973). The No drama and Gagaku court music of Japan were the inspiration for the trilogy of church parables Britten composed in the 1960s. The precise nature of these influences is discussed; Britten's sporadic borrowings from Indian music are also fully analysed. There is a survey of critical responses to Britten's cross-cultural experiments. Dr MERVYN COOKE lectures in music at the University of Nottingham.
The Music Of Britten And Tippett
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Author : Arnold Whittall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-08-31
The Music Of Britten And Tippett written by Arnold Whittall 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 1990-08-31 with Music categories.
A unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation.
Benjamin Britten
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Author : Graham Elliott
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-12-08
Benjamin Britten written by Graham Elliott and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-08 with Music categories.
Since Britten's death in 1976, numerous articles and books have been written about his life and work. Much has been made of the strong influences of his pacifism and his homosexuality. It is often suggested that Britten felt himself to be an outsider from 'normal' society, and that this accounts for the his concern to portray the 'outsider' in his operas. There is no doubt that this is an important aspect of Britten's art, but the present work attempts to show that his music embraces much wider and more universal concerns, and in addressing those concerns there is a clearly defined pattern of spiritual influence. Part One of the book examines Britten's early life, and the strong presence which the Church had in his childhood and adolescence. It explores the way in which certain spiritual influences were first manifested, and how, like the more specifically musical 'themes' which Donald Mitchell has noted, they can be traced throughout Britten's life and work. The author was privileged to have conversations with two clergymen who were influential in Britten's life, as well as gathering valuable insights through a long series of conversations with Sir Peter Pears. Part Two examines a wide range of the composer's music in which a spiritual dimension can be traced. The specifically liturgical music has received rather less critical notice than Britten's larger works. The music is discussed here, and shown to possess musical characteristics in common with the larger works. Britten could not be described as a conventional Christian; still less is it true to describe him, as Eric Walter White has done, as 'keen, wherever possible, to work within the framework of the Church of England'. Nevertheless, his spirituality was rooted in the religious experience of his childhood. This book seeks to demonstrate that Britten retained a sense of the Christian values absorbed in childhood and adolescence, and that these - along with the specifically Christian heritage of plainsong - were strongly influential in his choice and treatment of themes.
Britten And The Guitar
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Author : Benjamin Dwyer
language : en
Publisher: Carysfort Press
Release Date : 2016
Britten And The Guitar written by Benjamin Dwyer and has been published by Carysfort Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Guitar categories.
Now available in paperback! Benjamin Dwyer's book is the first important study of the guitar works of Benjamin Britten. It offers more than an objective analytical study of these compositions. Dwyer draws upon his expertise as a classical guitarist, composer and musicologist to deliver a multi-lensed examination of this music, providing broad contexts and unique insights. Dwyer not only explores the intricate relationship between Britten, his life-long partner, the tenor, Peter Pears, and the guitarist, Julian Bream, for whom all the guitar works were written, but goes further in situating the Renaissance composer and lutenist John Dowland as a central and inspirational figure that hovers over all Britten's guitar works. In so doing, he provides unique insights into Britten's compositional approach demonstrating how techniques of musical rhetoric, exemplified by Dowland, are central to his musical idiolect. Britten and the Guitar: Critical Perspectives for Performers is an essential text for the professional guitarist and singer, the committed teacher, and those who simply wish to understand more about this unique body of music by one the 20th-century's most enigmatic composers. ***Dwyer steers deftly between the Scylla of pedantry and the Charybdis of gossipy klatsch to offer a treasure trove of interesting facts and vivid portraits of great musicians spanning a long arc of Western culture.... the unique insights afforded by his treatment of Britten's guitar oeuvre shed a new light on this eternally fascinating and complex man and his endlessly rich legacy.--Eliot Fisk ***Dwyer is a guitarist, composer and musicologist who has spent decades performing Britten's music and so comes to his subject not only as a researcher but also as an expert practitioner. This book is essential reading for all those who wish to perform or teach Britten's remarkable music for the guitar.--Xuefei Yang [Subject: Music, Music History]
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 Children
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Author : John Bridcut
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-04-21
Britten S Children written by John Bridcut and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, 'this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it'. Since making the film, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. The documentary Britten's Children won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2005 Award for Creative Communication: 'this serious and beautiful film explored one aspect of a composer's life in great depth. Avoiding the temptation of sensationalism, Britten's Children was imaginatively researched and both touching and revelatory'.
An Abc Of Music
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Author : Imogen Holst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
An Abc Of Music written by Imogen Holst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Music theory categories.
On Music
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Author : Benjamin Britten
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2003
On Music written by Benjamin Britten and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a major factor in the transformation during his lifetime of the structure of the art-music industry. This book, by bringing together all his published articles, unpublished speeches, drafts, and transcriptions of numerous radio interviews, explores the paradox of a reluctant yet influential cultural commentator, artist, and humanist. Whether talking about his own music, about the role of the artist in society, about music criticism, or wading into a debate on Soviet ideology at the height of the cold war, Britten always gave a performance which reinforced the notion of a private man who nonetheless saw the importance of public disclosure.