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Music and sexuality in Britten : selected essays
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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.
ISBN
0520246098 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520246101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Internet Archive collection.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.
Contents
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
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.
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