BRITTEN'S MUSICAL LANGUAGE

Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Brittens Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composers fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and son g. It provides close interpretative studies of the major scores (including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, War Requ iem, Curlew River and Death in Venice) and explores Brittens ability to fashion complex and mysterious symbolic dramas from the int erplay of te...[Read more]