The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

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Edited by Mervyn Cooke, University of Nottingham

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2011
Print publication year:: 1999
Online ISBN:: 9781139002226
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521573849

Subjects:: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest
Collection:: The Cambridge Companions to Music
Series:: Cambridge Companions to Music

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The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten is a comprehensive guide to the composer's work, aimed both at the non-specialist and music student. It sheds light on both the composer's stylistic and personal development, offering new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his characteristic working methods. Topics treated here in detail for the first time include Britten's work in the cinema in the 1930s, his lifelong pacifism and his strong interest in the music of the Far East; other chapters include reassessments of his relationship with W. H. Auden and his attitude towards childhood, comprehensive analyses of major works and a concise history of the Aldeburgh Festival. A distinguished team of contributors include some who worked with the composer during his lifetime, as well as leading representatives of the younger generation of Britten scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.

‘ … the serious student will be richly stimulated.’

Source: BBC Music Magazine

‘Essential reading, then, for Britten students, containing much that will be of interest to the composers’ wide and ever-widening circle of admirers.’

Source: Classical Music

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Frontmatter
pp i-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-8

Part one - Apprenticeship

1 - Juvenilia (1922–1932)
pp 9-35

2 - Britten, Auden and ‘otherness’
pp 36-53

3 - Britten in the cinema: Coal Face
pp 54-78

Part two - The operas

4 - ‘He descended into Hell’: Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford and salvation denied
pp 79-94

5 - The chamber operas
pp 95-112

6 - Gloriana: Britten's ‘slighted child’
pp 113-128

7 - Britten and Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
pp 129-146

8 - Eros in life and death: Billy Budd and Death in Venice
pp 147-164

Part three - Perspectives

9 - Distant horizons: from Pagodaland to the Church Parables
pp 165-187

10 - Violent climates
pp 188-216

11 - Britten as symphonist
pp 217-232

12 - The concertos and early orchestral scores: aspects of style and aesthetic
pp 233-244

13 - The chamber music
pp 245-259

14 - Music for voices
pp 260-276

Part four - The composer in the community

15 - Britten and the world of the child
pp 277-291

16 - Old songs in new contexts: Britten as arranger
pp 292-305

17 - Aldeburgh
pp 306-317

Notes
pp 318-342

Index of Britten's works
pp 343-345

General index
pp 346-350

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