Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays / Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor
Utgivning: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2006Beskrivning: 280 s. : musiknoterISBN:- 0-520-24609-8 (inb.)
- 978-0-520-24609-6 (inb.)
- 0-520-24610-1 (hft.)
- 978-0-520-24610-2 (hft.)
- 780.92 22 (machine generated)
- Ijz Britten, Benjamin
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Book | Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A | B25.150 | 1 | Available | 26201808641 |
Introduction : remembering Philip Brett / Susan McClary. 1. Britten and Grimes ; 2. "Grimes Is at His Exercise" : Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes ; 3. Grimes and Lucretia ; 4. Salvation at Sea : Britten's Billy Budd ; 5. Character and Caricature in Albert Herring ; 6. Britten's Bad Boys : Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw ; 7. Britten's Dream ; 8. Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas ; 9. Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors ; 10. Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor ; 11. Auden's Britten ; 12. The Britten Era. Appendix: Philip Brett's Britten Scholarship
Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten changed the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume gathers Brett's work on the composer. It develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical achievement and highlights the many ways that Brett expanded the borders of his field