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Britten's musical language /
"Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual, and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers fresh perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song. It provides close inte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
Ã2001.
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| Colección: | Music in the twentieth century ;
17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual, and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers fresh 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, rather than on traditional notions of textual 'expression' in vocal music, Philip Rupprecht pursues 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."--Publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 358 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511482021 0511482027 0511066112 9780511066115 9780511068249 0511068247 9780521031035 0521031036 1107127971 9781107127975 1280417455 9781280417450 0511059809 9780511059803 |