Benjamin Britten : the spiritual dimension / by Elliott, Graham

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Literary Britten : words and music in Benjamin Britten's vocal works /

Table of Contents: “…Harper-Scott -- Benjamin Britten and medieval drama at Chester : from Abraham and Isaac to "The Nativity" / Peter Happe -- Ambiguous Venice / John Hopkins.…”
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Learning to kneel : noh, modernism, and journeys in teaching / by Preston, Carrie J.

Table of Contents: “…Yeats's at the Hawk's well -- Ito Michio's hawk tours in modern dance and theater -- Pedagogical intermission: a lesson plan for Bertolt Brecht's Revisions -- Noh circles in twentieth-century Japanese performance -- Trouble with titles and directors: Benjamin Britten and William Plomer's Curlew -- River and Samuel Beckett's Footfalls/pas -- Coda.…”
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Coming out of war : poetry, grieving, and the culture of the world wars / by Stout, Janis P.

Table of Contents: “…Aspirations to heroism : the old that passed away -- The new war poetry : the soldier poets -- The great grief : women poets of World War I -- Looking back on the Great War -- Uneasy interlude : visions of the approach and renewal of war -- Poetry and music enlist -- Weariness and irony : a poetry of fact -- Lament and protest : a poetry of reflection -- Looking back on the "good war" -- Benjamin Britten's War requiem and the hope of learning peace.…”
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On art and artists : selected essays / by Rosenthal, T. G.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; On Art and Artists; Michael Ayrton; Arthur Boyd; Ivon Hitchens; Thelma Hulbert; Wyndham Lewis's Rationbook; Lowry in Person; Benjamin Britten, Sydney Nolan and Patrick White; Paula Rego I; Paul Rego II; The Paintings of August Strindberg; Jack B. …”
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Masterworks of 20th-century music : the modern repertory of the symphony orchestra / by Lee, Douglas A.

Table of Contents: “…John Adams -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Alban Berg -- Leonard Bernstein -- Benjamin Britten -- Aaron Copland -- John Corigliano -- Peter Maxwell Davies -- Manuel de Falla -- George Gershwin -- Alberto Ginastera -- Henryk Górecki -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Zoltán Kodály -- Witold Lutosławski -- Darius Milhaud -- Carl Nielsen -- Carl Orff -- Francis Poulenc -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Maurice Ravel -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Igor Stravinsky -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- William Walton -- Anton Webern.…”
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Britten's unquiet pasts : sound and memory in postwar reconstruction / by Wiebe, Heather

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Middlebrow modernism : Britten's operas and the great divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

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Music of the twentieth century : an anthology /

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