Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Going Behind Britten’s Back
- 2 Performing Early Britten: Signs of Promise and Achievement in Poèmes nos. 4 and 5 (1927)
- 3 Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony: A Response to War Requiem?
- 4 Six Metamorphoses after Ovid and the Influence of Classical Mythology on Benjamin Britten
- 5 Britten and the Cinematic Frame
- 6 Storms, Laughter and Madness: Verdian ‘Numbers’ and Generic Allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes
- 7 Dramatic Invention in Myfanwy Piper's Libretto for Owen Wingrave
- 8 ‘The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone’: Father Figures and Fighting Sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave
- 9 Made You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice
- 10 From ‘The Borough’ to Fraser Island
- 11 Britten and France, or the Late Emergence of a Remarkable Lyric Universe
- 12 Why did Benjamin Britten Return to Wartime England?
- Index of Britten’s works
- General index
Index of Britten’s works
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Going Behind Britten’s Back
- 2 Performing Early Britten: Signs of Promise and Achievement in Poèmes nos. 4 and 5 (1927)
- 3 Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony: A Response to War Requiem?
- 4 Six Metamorphoses after Ovid and the Influence of Classical Mythology on Benjamin Britten
- 5 Britten and the Cinematic Frame
- 6 Storms, Laughter and Madness: Verdian ‘Numbers’ and Generic Allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes
- 7 Dramatic Invention in Myfanwy Piper's Libretto for Owen Wingrave
- 8 ‘The Minstrel Boy to the War is Gone’: Father Figures and Fighting Sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave
- 9 Made You Look! Children in Salome and Death in Venice
- 10 From ‘The Borough’ to Fraser Island
- 11 Britten and France, or the Late Emergence of a Remarkable Lyric Universe
- 12 Why did Benjamin Britten Return to Wartime England?
- Index of Britten’s works
- General index
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- Benjamin BrittenNew Perspectives on His Life and Work, pp. 187 - 188Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009