Rethinking Britten

Zusatztext Masterfully blends multiple modes of inquiry and reestablishes Britten as a seminal composer of modernist and postmodern artistic accomplishment... Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Philip Rupprecht is Associate Professor of Music at Duke University. He is the author of Britten's Musical Language (Cambridge) and co-editor of Tonality 1900-1950: Concept and Practice (Steiner, 2012). Klappentext This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new account of the composer's enduring popularity. 12 essays by a group of leading senior and emerging scholars offer fresh historical and interpretive contexts for all phases of Britten's career.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Rupprecht, Philip (Associate Professor of Music Rupprecht
• Assisted by: Philip Rupprecht (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2013
• EAN: 9780199794805
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979480-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Music / Songbooks