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Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays / Philip Brett; edited by George E. Haggerty; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkely, Calif. : University of California Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520939127
  • 0520939123
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Music and Sexuality in Britten : Selected Essays.DDC classification:
  • 780.92 782.1092
LOC classification:
  • ML410.B853 B64 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction. Remembering Philip Brett -- Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in the Turn of the screw -- Britten's Dream : for Sue-Ellen Case -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Purcell, and his English predecessors -- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor -- Auden's Britten -- The Britten era.
Abstract: This book gathers together essays on the great British composer. These essays opened the door to gay studies in music, reinvigorated the study of Britten's work, and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine "the new musicology." Addressing questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, the author examines most of Britten's operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century. Some of these essays appear here for the first time. The book develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical achievement and highlights the many ways that the author expanded the borders of his field.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.

Introduction. Remembering Philip Brett -- Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in the Turn of the screw -- Britten's Dream : for Sue-Ellen Case -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Purcell, and his English predecessors -- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor -- Auden's Britten -- The Britten era.

This book gathers together essays on the great British composer. These essays opened the door to gay studies in music, reinvigorated the study of Britten's work, and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine "the new musicology." Addressing questions of how an artist's sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, the author examines most of Britten's operas as well as his role in the British cultural establishment of the mid-twentieth century. Some of these essays appear here for the first time. The book develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical achievement and highlights the many ways that the author expanded the borders of his field.

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