Britten: War Requiem - Rilegato

Cooke, Mervyn

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ISBN 10: 0521440890 ISBN 13: 9780521440899

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Riassunto

Widely regarded as one of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century, Britten's War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. It provocatively juxtaposes the vivid anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass in a passionate outcry against man's inhumanity to man. This handbook explores the background to Britten's use of the Owen texts, charting the development of the composer's lifelong pacifist beliefs and (in a chapter contributed by Philip Reed of the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh) detailing the process of composition from hitherto unpublished correspondence and manuscript sources. The musical structure is investigated, and the work's compositional idiom related to Britten's output as a whole. A concluding chapter surveys the fluctuating critical responses to the score, and includes discussion of the composer's legendary 1963 recording and Derek Jarman's controversial interpretation on film.

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Descrizione del libro:

Widely regarded as one of the greatest choral works of the twentieth century, Britten's War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of Coventry's new cathedral in 1962. This handbook examines Britten's use of the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen and contains hitherto unpublished correspondence and manuscript sources.

Contenuti:

1. Owen, Britten and pacifism; 2. The War Requiem in progress Philip Reed; 3. The musical language: idiom and structure; 4. Critical reception; Appendix; Text; Select bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521440890
• ISBN 13: 9780521440899
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128