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Music and sexuality in Britten: selected essays

Philip Brett, George E. Haggerty, Susan McClary and Jennifer Doctor
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (George E. Haggerty, page xi)
  • Introduction Remembering Philip Brett (Susan McClary, page 1)
  • 1. Britten and Grimes (page 11)
  • 2. "Grimes Is at His Exercise" Sex, Politics, and Violence in the Librettos of Peter Grimes (page 34)
  • 3. Grimes and Lucretia (page 54)
  • 4. Salvation at Sea Britten's Billy Budd (page 70)
  • 5. Character and Caricature in Albert Herring (page 81)
  • 6. Britten's Bad Boys Male Relations in The Turn of the Screw (page 88)
  • 7. Britten's Dream (page 106)
  • 8. Eros and Orientation in Britten's Opera (page 129)
  • 9. Keeping the Straight Line Intact? Britten's Relation to Folksong, Purcell, and His English Predecessors (page 154)
  • 10. Pacifism, Political Action, and Artistic Endeavor (page 172)
  • 11. Auden's Britten (page 186)
  • 12. The Britten Era (page 204)
  • Afterword (Jenny Doctor, page 225)
  • Appendix Philip Brett's Britten Scholarship (page 247)
  • Work Cited (page 255)
  • Index (page 267)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
OQ 23.1 (Winter 2007): 130-136 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/opera_quarterly/v023/23.1.wiebe.html
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Published: c2006
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520939127 (ebook)
  • 9780520246096 (hardcover)
  • 9780520246102 (paper)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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