Benjamin Britten in Context - Brossura

Vicki P Stroeher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1108721842 ISBN 13: 9781108721844

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Riassunto

A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.

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Vicki P. Stroeher is Professor of Music at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She is co-editor of My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears (with Jude Brimmer and Nicholas Clark, 2016) which earned the 2017 C. B. Oldman Award and Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art (with Justin Vickers, 2017). She has also contributed to Literary Britten. Her current monograph project investigates Britten's interpretation of poetry in his songs and song cycles within a narratological framework.

Justin Vickers is Professor of Music at Illinois State University. As a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, he is completing his first monograph The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts: A History of the Britten and Pears Era, 1948–1986, (forthcoming). He is co-editor of Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art (with Vicki P. Stroeher, 2017). He has contributed to The Sea in the British Musical Imagination (2016) and Literary Britten: Words and Music in Benjamin Britten's Vocal Works (2019). His additional research focuses on Britten's song and the creative process, Peter Pears, and the English Opera Group, among other mid-century British topics.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1108721842
• ISBN 13: 9781108721844
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174
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