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Britten, Benjamin --- Music --- Musique --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 78.21.1 Britten --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E. --- Britten, Benjamin, - 1913-1976

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Bringing together established authorities and new voices, this book takes off the 'protective arm' around Britten. 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the authors take off the 'protective arm' around Britten and disclose an unprecedented amount of previously unpublished and disregarded primary source materials.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 and his re-entry into the British musical scene; scrutinizes the fraught establishing of the English Opera Group and his break with Boosey & Hawkes; addresses sensitive issues of intimacy and Britten's relationships; and combines closer analysis of Britten's music 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.

Britten, Benjamin, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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opera's --- Britten, Benjamin --- Operas --- Opéras --- Librettos --- Livrets --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Librettos. --- Opéras --- 78.77.2 Britten --- Operas - Librettos --- Britten, Benjamin, - 1913-1976. - Operas

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Composers --- Compositeurs --- Biography --- Biographies --- Britten, Benjamin,

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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. 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, Philip Rupprecht replaces traditional notions of textual 'expression' in opera with the interpretation of 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.

Britten, Benjamin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Britten, Benjamin --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Music --- Musique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Criticism and interpretation --- Britten, Benjamin, - 1913-1976 - Criticism and interpretation. --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E.