عنوان

Britten's musical language /

0511059809

0511066112

0511068247

0511482027

0521031036

1107127971

1280417455

9780511059803

9780511066115

9780511068249

9780511482021

9780521031035

9781107127975

9781280417450

0521631548

9780521631549

b704557

Britten's musical language /

[Book]

Philip Rupprecht.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

©2001.

1 online resource (ix, 358 pages) :

illustrations

Music in the 20th century ;

[17]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index.

"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, rather than on traditional notions of textual 'expression' in vocal music, Philip Rupprecht pursues 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."--Publisher's description.

Britten's musical language.

0521631548

Britten, Benjamin,1913-1976-- Criticism and interpretation.

Britten, Benjamin,1913-1976.

MUSIC-- Individual Composer & Musician.

Muziekwerken.

MUS-- 050000

Rupprecht, Philip Ernst.

20201207195954.0

pn

[Book]

Y