Britten's Donne, Hardy and Blake Songs

Gordon Cameron Sly

• Hardcover | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 15
• Presents a first analytical study that looks at the overarching designs of Benjamin Britten's John Donne, Thomas Hardy and William Blake solo song cyc... Lees meer

British Music After Britten

Arnold Whittall

• Hardcover | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 14
• By common consent the leading British composer of the twentieth-century's middle decades, Britten continues to create significant contexts for the wor... Lees meer

The Making of Peter Grimes: Essays

• Paperback | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 6
• Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera. The premiere of Peter Grim... Lees meer

Literary Britten

• Hardcover | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 13
• Britten is the most literary British composer of the twentieth century. His relationship to the many and varied texts that he set was deeply committed... Lees meer

Britten and the Far East

Mervyn Cooke

• Paperback | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 4
• Investigation into the influence of Eastern music on Britten's composition. Benjamin Britten's interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had ... Lees meer

My Beloved Man

Vicki P Stroehernicholas Cla

• Hardcover | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 10
• It's a life of the two of us.' The complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. To read these letters is to climb up a ... Lees meer

On Mahler and Britten

• Paperback | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 3
• Critical essays and studies reflecting the latest thinking on two major figures in 20c music. In this Festschrift for Donald Mitchell, the foremost au... Lees meer

The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears

Peter Pears, Philip Reed

• Paperback | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 2
• Travel diaries reveal musical inspiration, personal encounters, notes on performances. This volume brings together all the travel diaries of Sir Peter... Lees meer

Benjamin Britten

• Hardcover | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 8
• An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by A... Lees meer

Britten and Auden in the Thirties: The Year 1936

Donald Mitchell, Alan Hollinghurst

• Paperback | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 5
• A crucial year in the Britten/Auden relationship, which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period. Benjamin Britten an... Lees meer

Britten's Gloriana: Essays and Sources

• Paperback | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 1
• A collection of essays which explore the cultural background and creative evolution of this once-overlooked work. This volume is based on a selection ... Lees meer

Imogen Holst: A Life in Music

• Paperback | Engels | Aldeburgh Studies in Music | nr. 7
• This paperback edition is updated to include new insights into Holst's life and work resulting from the discovery of important unseen archival materia... Lees meer