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Britten's Musical Language

Britten's Musical Language

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Series: Music in the Twentieth Century, Book 17

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ISBN10: 0521031036
ISBN13: 9780521031035
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 23 2006
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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 wordless discourse of motives and themes.

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