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Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art
Vicki P. Stroeher
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Description for Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art
Hardback. Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten. Num Pages: 512 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 44 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Benjamin Britten Studies brings together established authorities and new voices to offer a fresh perspective on previous scholarship models and a re-contextualization of previously held beliefs about Britten. Using the most recent and innovative historical, musicological, sociological, psychological, and theoretical methodologies, the authors take off the 'protective arm' around Britten and disclose an unprecedented amount of previously unpublished and disregarded primary source materials. The collection considers difficult questions of identity such as Britten's retreat to America, his re-entry into the British musical scene, and late-life revisions of his American works; scrutinizes the fraught establishing of the English Opera Group contemporaneous with the founding of the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts; explores his break with Boosey & Hawkes and inspects international copyright concerns in the Soviet Union' investigates sensitive issues of intimacy and Britten's relationships; and combines closer analysis of Britten's musico-rhythmic, harmonic, and compositional practices with a description of the more overtly political context within which he found himself. Benjamin Britten Studies ends by asking what we can actually know about the composer in a reconsideration of the materials he left behind. All of this coalesces into a volume that not only serves as a model of on-going and future Britten research but which generates a greater understanding of the overall trends within the ever-synthesizing and interdisciplinary musicological field of the twenty-first century. VICKI P. STROEHER is Professor of Music History at Marshall University. JUSTIN VICKERS is Assistant Professor of Voice at Illinois State University. Contributors: Byron Adams, Nicholas Clark, Jenny Doctor, Paul Kildea, Christopher Mark, Thornton Miller, Louis Niebur, Philip Reed, Colleen Renihan, Philip Rupprecht, Kevin Salfen, Vicki P. Stroeher, Justin Vickers, Lucy Walker, Danielle Ward-Griffin, Lloyd Whitesell
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
554
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783271955
SKU
V9781783271955
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99-50
Reviews for Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art
Deepen[s] our understanding of the composer and his music, whilst also revealing that we can never fully 'know' Britten in spite of our access to documents, recordings and, of course, the music...Witty and thought-provoking. FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE An interesting collection of essays on aspects of the composter, his life and compositions. SPIRITED, THE GAZETTE OF THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL [S]erves its subject as a repository of expert disquisitions: studies indeed. . . . [The] admirable and welcome . . . chapters in this beautifully produced book
a work of art in itself
combine to demonstrate protean aspects of [Britten]. NABMSA REVIEWS These essays, some the result of this new access, include...Kevin Salfen's very fine chapter on No drama...Jenny Doctor on Britten's wartime radio work and Byron Adams on the little-explored influence of John Ireland. BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
a work of art in itself
combine to demonstrate protean aspects of [Britten]. NABMSA REVIEWS These essays, some the result of this new access, include...Kevin Salfen's very fine chapter on No drama...Jenny Doctor on Britten's wartime radio work and Byron Adams on the little-explored influence of John Ireland. BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE