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Britten'S Musical Language - Music in the Twentieth Century, 17 (Book, New ed)
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Britten'S Musical Language - Music in the Twentieth Century, 17 (Book, New ed)
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Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech,
ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism,
Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the
composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and
song. It provides close interpretative studies of the major scores
(including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, War
Requiem, Curlew River and Death in Venice) and explores Britten's
ability to fashion complex and mysterious symbolic dramas from the
interplay of texted song and a wordless discourse of motives and
themes. Focusing on the performative and social basis of language,
Philip Rupprecht replaces traditional notions of textual
'expression' in opera with the interpretation of topics such as the
role of naming and hate speech in Peter Grimes; the disturbance of
ritual certainty in the War Requiem; and the codes by which
childish 'innocence' is enacted in The Turn of the Screw.
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