Britten's Musical Language (Music in the Twentieth Century)
Mega Sale! Save 25% on the Britten's Musical Language (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Cambridge University Press at Translate This Website. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. 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 ability to fashion complex and mysterious
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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 ability to fashion complex and mysterious symbolic dramas from the interplay of texted song and wordless discourse of motives and themes.
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Manufacturer: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Studio: | Cambridge University Press |
EAN: | 9780521031035 |
Item Weight: | 1.3 pounds |
Item Size: | 0.75 x 9.72 x 9.72 inches |
Package Weight: | 1.59 pounds |
Package Size: | 6.69 x 1.26 x 1.26 inches |
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