Britten's Musical Language
Series: Music in the Twentieth Century; 17;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 23 November 2006
- ISBN 9780521031035
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages372 pages
- Size 244x170x19 mm
- Weight 599 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 97 music examples 0
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Short description:
Examines Britten's fusion of verbal and musical sound in opera and song.
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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.
'Once one has opened the tough shell of the author's language there are pearls within.' International Record Review
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Britten's musical language; 2. Peter Grimes: the force of operatic utterance; 3. Motive and narrative in Billy Budd; 4. The Turn of the Screw: innocent performance; 5. Rituals: the War Requiem and Curlew River; 6. Subjectivity and perception in Death in Venice; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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