Literary Britten (EPDF) von Kate Kennedy

Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed and sensitive. As a result, both his responses to poetry and his collaborationswith his librettists tell us a great deal about his music, and often, about the man himself.

Introduction - Kate Kennedy
Britten and His Librettists: The Composer asAuteur - Mervyn Cooke
Britten, Auden and the 1930s - John Fuller
James, Britten, Piper and the Literary Supernatural: The Changing 'vision of evil' inThe Turn of the Screw andOwen Wingrave - Nick Clark
'Thought's Wildernesses': The Development of Britten'sNocturne from Library to Score - Kate Kennedy
'Reading at Intervals': Britten's Romantic Poetry - Brian Young
Britten's Drops: The Lyric into Song - Rebekah Scott
'Without any tune': The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten's Interpretation of Poetry - Vicki P. Stroeher
Britten and Modern Tragedy - Adrian Poole
Settings from Boyhood - Lucy Walker
'Practical Jokes': Britten and Auden'sOur Hunting Fathers Revisited - Joanna Bullivant
Choice and Inevitability: The Moral Economy ofPeter Grimes - Philip Ross Bullock
Sin, Death, and Love: Britten'sHoly Sonnets of John Donne - David Fuller
Britten's Donne Meditation - Justin Vickers
Scenes from Britten'sSpring Symphony - Philip Rupprecht
'Ihave readBilly Budd': The Forster-Britten reading(s) of Melville - Hanna Rochlitz
Miles Must Die: Ideological Uses of 'innocence' in Britten'sThe Turn of the Screw
Benjamin Britten and Medieval Drama at Chester: FromAbraham and Isaac to 'The Nativity' - Peter Happe
Ambiguous Venice - John Hopkins
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