Britten's Gloriana
Title | Britten's Gloriana PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Banks |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Britten, Benjamin |
ISBN | 0851153402 |
This volume is based on a selection of papers presented during a study course devoted to Gloriana held at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in 1991. Glorianahas been a source of controversy since its premire as part of the Coronation celebrations in 1953. It was planned as a national opera of broad appeal by its authors, Benjamin Britten and William Plomer, but, despite wide coverage in the media, the opera failed to establish itself in the repertoire until a new production in 1966 revealed it to be a powerful and stageworthy work. In recent years it has attracted an increasing amount of scholarly attention. This volume offers essays by ROBERT HEWISON, PHILIP REED, ANTONIA MALLOY, DONALD MITCHELL and PETER EVANS which explore the opera's cultural background, the early stages of its creative evolution, the first critical responses, and various aspects of the work itself: these are supplemented by a list of source materials for the opera and the works derived from it, and an extensive bibliography.
Peter Grimes/Gloriana
Title | Peter Grimes/Gloriana PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Britten |
Publisher | Alma Books |
Total Pages | 131 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0714545031 |
This is a double volume dedicated to two masterpieces by Benjamin Britten. While Peter Grimes established Britten as a composer of international standing, Gloriana, composed for the coronation of Elizabeth II, has never enjoyed a comparable fame. The variety of mood, characterization and pace, in each, illustrates Britten's exceptional gift for theatre. Commentaries on the scores reveal, for instance, how much the popular concert extracts gain from their context in the dramas. The essay by E.M. Forster - the inspiration for Peter Grimes - is reprinted here, and Michael Holroyd discusses Lytton Strachey's controversial Elizabeth and Essex - the source for Gloriana.Contents: Benjamin Britten's Librettos, Peter Porter; George Crabbe: The Poet and the Man, E.M. Forster; 'Peter Grimes': A Musical Commentary, Stephen Walsh; Peter Grimes: Libretto by Montagu Slater; 'Peter Grimes' and 'Gloriana', Joan Cross, Peter Pears and John Evans; Some Reflections on the Operas of Benjamin Britten, Buxton Orr; 'A daring experiment', Michael Holroyd; The Librettist of 'Gloriana', Rupert Hart-Davis; The Music of 'Gloriana', Christopher Palmer; Notes on the Libretto of 'Gloriana', William Plomer; Gloriana: Libretto by William Plomer
Opera. Gloriana, [by Benjamin Britten].
Title | Opera. Gloriana, [by Benjamin Britten]. PDF eBook |
Author | A. V. Coton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 3 |
Release | 1953 |
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ISBN |
Selling Britten
Title | Selling Britten PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Francis Kildea |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198167150 |
'... frequently fascinating book.' -Times Higher Education SupplementThis book explores the effect of commercial and national institutions on the music of one of the foremost British composers of the twentieth century, Benjamin Britten. Radio, the recording industry, government subsidies for the arts, Covent Garden, the post-war establishment of music festivals, were all agents for dramatic changes in the art-music culture which Britten skilfully used to his advantage.
Britten's Unquiet Pasts
Title | Britten's Unquiet Pasts PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Wiebe |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 251 |
Release | 2012-10-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1139576429 |
Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral.
Gloriana
Title | Gloriana PDF eBook |
Author | English National Opera |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1975 |
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ISBN |
Britten's Century
Title | Britten's Century PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bostridge |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2013-06-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1441151869 |
2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event. Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song. Biographically, this book moves on beyond the relationship with Peter Pears and the salacious speculation about his infatuation with various boys, to a consideration of Britten's experience as a homosexual man living in a largely homophobic society. Another area here which is often overlooked is the view of Britten from outside the British Isles - the USA and Italy, where his operas have long been extremely popular.