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Paperback Britten's Musical Language Book

ISBN: 0521031036

ISBN13: 9780521031035

Britten's Musical Language

(Part of the Music in the Twentieth Century Series)

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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 fresh 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...

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