Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Perspectives
- 1 Britten and His Librettists: The Composer as Auteur
- 2 Britten, Auden and the 1930s
- 3 James, Britten, Piper and the Literary Supernatural: The Changing ‘vision of evil’ in The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave
- 4 ‘Thought's Wildernesses’: The Development of Britten's Nocturne from Library to Score
- 5 ‘Reading at Intervals’: Britten's Romantic Poetry
- 6 Britten's Drops: The Lyric into Song
- 7 ‘Without any tune’: The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten's Interpretation of Poetry
- 8 Britten and Modern Tragedy
- Part II Studies
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Britten, Auden and the 1930s
from Part I - Perspectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Music Examples
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Perspectives
- 1 Britten and His Librettists: The Composer as Auteur
- 2 Britten, Auden and the 1930s
- 3 James, Britten, Piper and the Literary Supernatural: The Changing ‘vision of evil’ in The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave
- 4 ‘Thought's Wildernesses’: The Development of Britten's Nocturne from Library to Score
- 5 ‘Reading at Intervals’: Britten's Romantic Poetry
- 6 Britten's Drops: The Lyric into Song
- 7 ‘Without any tune’: The Role of the Discursive Shift in Britten's Interpretation of Poetry
- 8 Britten and Modern Tragedy
- Part II Studies
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Literary Brittenwords and music in benjamin britten's vocal works the boydell, pp. 31 - 48Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2018