The Music of Britten and Tippett
Studies in Themes and Techniques
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- Author: Arnold Whittall
- Date Published: September 1990
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521386685
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In this classic study of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett, Arnold Whittall builds up a unique double portrait of the two leading composers of their generation. For this second, revised edition Whittall includes a new chapter on Tippett's major works of the 1980s: the Piano Sonata No. 4, the large-scale choral composition The Mask of Time and the most recent opera, New Year. In addition, new information on the Britten repertoire and an updated bibliography are also presented.
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'Arnold Whittall's brilliant technical book on the music of Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett is really two books for the price on one.' Opera Quarterly
See more reviews'This is an important book, enriching with far more exact substance than had so far been essayed the common view of these two composers as talents in many ways complementary.' Music and Letters
'[Whittall's] book contains the most substantial writing on Tippett so far, while on Britten he provides an essential complement to Peter Evans's major study.' The Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: September 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521386685
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part I. The Thirties and the War:
1. Britten: Four early works (1931–3)
2. Tippett: String quartet No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 1 (1934–7)
3. Britten: Our Hunting Fathers to the Violin Concerto (1936–9)
4. Tippett in 1939: the Concerto for Double String Orchestra
5. Britten in America:
1939–42
6. Tippett: an oratorio, a string quartet and a cantata (1939–43)
7. Britten's return:
1942–3
8. Tippett and symphonic form (1944–6)
Postscript: the Britten legacy
Part II. After the War (1944–63):
9. Britten: Peter Grimes (1944–5)
10. Britten: the Donne Sonnets and the String Quartet No. 2 (1945)
11. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring (1946–7)
12. Britten: from Albert Herring to Billy Budd (1947-51)
13. Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage (1946–52)
14. Britten: from Canticle II to Winter Words (1952–3)
15. Tippett: from the Corelli Fantasia to the Piano Concerto (1953-5)
16. Britten: The Turn of the Screw to Noye's Fludde (1953–7)
17. Tippett: Symphony No. 2 (1956–7)
18. Britten: the Nocturne to the War Requiem (1958–61)
19. Tippett: King Priam (1958–61)
20. Tippett: after King Priam (1962–3)
Part III. Patterns of Transformation (1963–80):
21. Britten: The Cello Symphony and Curlew River (1963–4)
22. Tippett: The Vision of Saint Augustine (1963–5)
23. Britten: Blake, Pushkin and the second Church Parable (1965-6)
24. Britten: from The Prodigal Son to Who are these children? (1967–9)
25. Tippett: The Knot Garden and Songs for Dov (1966–70)
26. Britten: From Owen Wingrave to Death in Venice (1970-3)
27. Tippett: Symphony No. 3, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1970–3)
28. Britten: the final compositions (1974–6)
29. Tippett: The Ice Break, and after (1973–80)
30. Tippett: Into the eighties (1980–9)
Epilogue
Notes
Further reading
Index.
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