Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Brett, Philip.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Haggerty, George E.

Description

xiv, 280 p. : music; 23 cm.

Subject

• Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
• Composers > Great Britain > Biography
• Sex in music
• Gender identity in music

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JME 06-1103

ISBN

• 0520246098 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520246101 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780520246096
• 9780520246102

LCCN

• 2006003045
• 9780520246096
• 9780520246102

OCLC

63245520

Author

Brett, Philip.

Title

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.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Added Author

Haggerty, George E.

Other Standard Identifier

9780520246096

9780520246102

Research Call Number

JME 06-1103