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| Author | : Philip Reed |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780851156149 |
In February 1995 Donald Mitchell, the foremost authority on the life and works of Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten, celebrated his seventieth birthday. To mark this event, the present Festschrift has been compiled under the editorship of Philip Reed. Distinguished composers, scholars, colleagues and friends from around the world have written on aspects of the two composers closest to Mitchell's heart - Mahler and Britten - to produce a volume which not only reflects some of the latest thinking on this pair of remarkable figures in the music of our century, but which also pays full tribute to the impact of Mitchell's own work on these composers over the last fifty years. The volume includes the fullest bibliography of Mitchell's writings yet compiled.
| Author | : Norman Lebrecht |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 140009657X |
Why Mahler? Why does his music affect us in the way it does? Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators, has been wrestling obsessively with Mahler for half his life. Following Mahler’s every footstep from birthplace to grave, scrutinizing his manuscripts, talking to those who knew him, Lebrecht constructs a compelling new portrait of Mahler as a man who lived determinedly outside his own times. Mahler was—along with Picasso, Einstein, Freud, Kafka, and Joyce—a maker of our modern world. Why Mahler? is a book that shows how music can change our lives.
| Author | : Jeremy Barham |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2007-12-13 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1139827200 |
In the years approaching the centenary of Mahler's death, this book provides both summation of, and starting point for, an assessment and reassessment of the composer's output and creative activity. Authored by a collection of leading specialists in Mahler scholarship, its opening chapters place the composer in socio-political and cultural contexts, and discuss his work in light of developments in the aesthetics of musical meaning. Part II examines from a variety of analytical, interpretative and critical standpoints the complete range of his output, from early student works and unfinished fragments to the sketches and performing versions of the Tenth Symphony. Part III evaluates Mahler's role as interpreter of his own and other composers' works during his lifelong career as operatic and orchestral conductor. Part IV addresses Mahler's fluctuating reception history from scholarly, journalistic, creative, public and commercial perspectives, with special attention being paid to his compositional legacy.
| Author | : Mervyn Cooke |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1999-06-28 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521574761 |
The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the cinema in the 1930s, his lifelong pacifism and his strong interest in the music of the Far East; other chapters include reassessments of his relationship with W. H. Auden and his attitude towards childhood, comprehensive analyses of major works and a concise history of the Aldeburgh Festival. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.
| Author | : Mervyn Cooke |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1996-11-07 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780521446334 |
Widely regarded as one of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century, Britten's War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. It provocatively juxtaposes the vivid anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass in a passionate outcry against man's inhumanity to man. This handbook explores the background to Britten's use of the Owen texts, charting the development of the composer's lifelong pacifist beliefs and (in a chapter contributed by Philip Reed of the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh) detailing the process of composition from hitherto unpublished correspondence and manuscript sources. The musical structure is investigated, and the work's compositional idiom related to Britten's output as a whole. A concluding chapter surveys the fluctuating critical responses to the score, and includes discussion of the composer's legendary 1963 recording and Derek Jarman's controversial interpretation on film.
| Author | : Heather Wiebe |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2012-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521194679 |
Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.
| Author | : Philip Rupprecht |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2006-11-23 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1139441280 |
Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song and provides close interpretative studies of the major scores.
| Author | : Hanna Rochlitz |
| Publisher | : Universitätsverlag Göttingen |
| Total Pages | : 597 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 3863950453 |
E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirmsthe Forsterian creed of salvation through personal relationships.This study presents an extensive exploration of Forster’s involvement in the interpretation, transformation and re-creation of Melville’s text. It situates the story of the Handsome Sailor in the wider context of Forster’s literary oeuvre, his life, and his lifewritings. In detailed readings, Billy Budd becomes a lens through which the themes, patterns and leitmotifs of Forsterian thought and creative imagination are brought into focus. A close re-examination of the libretto sketches serves to shed new light on the collaborative process in which Melville’s story was changed to fit an archetypal array of plot and character types that is central to Forster’s own storytelling.
| Author | : Donald Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 1987-06-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521319430 |
This book is a source of first-hand information on Britten's final operatic achievement.
| Author | : Philip Rupprecht |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2013-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199794812 |
This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career.
