The Music of Britten and Tippett
Studies in Themes and Techniques

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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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