Britten's musical language:
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Main Author: Rupprecht, Philip Ernst (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press ©2001
Series:Music in the twentieth century 17
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index
1 - Introduction: Britten's musical language -- - 2 - Peter Grimes: the force of operatic utterance -- - 3 - Motive and narrative in Billy Budd -- - 4 - The Turn of the Screw: innocent performance -- - 5 - Rituals: the War Requiem and Curlew River -- - 6 - Subjectivity and perception in Death in Venice
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 a wordless discourse of motives and themes. Focusing on the performative and social basis of language, Philip Rupprecht replaces traditional notions of textual 'expression' in opera with the interpretation of topics such as the role of naming and hate speech in Peter Grimes; the disturbance of ritual certainty in the War Requiem; and the codes by which childish 'innocence' is enacted in The Turn of the Screw
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 358 pages)
ISBN:0511066112
0511482027
0521631548
9780511066115
9780511482021
9780521631549

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