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.

• Introduction : remembering Philip Brett / Susan McClary. 1. Britten and Grimes ; 2. "Grimes Is at His Exercise" : Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes ; 3. Grimes and Lucretia ; 4. Salvation at Sea : Britten's Billy Budd ; 5. Character and Caricature in Albert Herring ; 6. Britten's Bad Boys : Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw ; 7. Britten's Dream ; 8. Eros and Orientalism in Britten's Operas ; 9. Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors ; 10. Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor ; 11. Auden's Britten ; 12. The Britten Era. Appendix: Philip Brett's Britten Scholarship. 

• Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten changed the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume gathers Brett's work on the composer. It develops a complex understanding of Britten's musical achievement and highlights the many ways that Brett expanded the borders of his field 

Personnamn

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ijz Musik: särskilda tonkonstnärer

Klassifikation

780.92 (DDC)

Ijz Britten, Benjamin (kssb/8)