The Golden Vanity / Die Gold'ne Eitelkeit: Op. 78: A Vaudeville for Boys and Piano After the Old English Ballad / Op. 78: Ein Vaudeville fur Knaben und Klavier nach einer alten englischen Ballade - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0571501060 ISBN 13: 9780571501069

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1973

Riassunto

Vocal score of The Golden Vanity which was composed in 1966 for performance by the world-famous Vienna Boys Choir, who commissioned it from Britten and went on to perform it at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1967. A vaudeville on an old English ballad , the work's double chorus of trebles tells the story of a sea battle with Turkish pirates, the humble cabin-boy who saves the day, and a treacherous sea-captain who refuses to keep the promise of his daughter's hand in marriage and lets the hero drown. There is typical Britten-esque use of folk-song idiom with undertones of dissonance and chromaticism suggesting the tragic aspects of the lonely, heroic schoolboy.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0571501060
• ISBN 13: 9780571501069
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 46