Britten's unquiet pasts : sound and memory in postwar reconstruction / by Wiebe, Heather

Table of Contents: “…Music and cultural renewal -- "Today on earth the angels sing": carols in wartime -- Realizing Purcell -- Gloriana and the "New Elizabethans" -- Remembering faith in Noye's Fludde -- Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry.…”
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Britten's unquiet pasts : sound and memory in postwar reconstruction / by Wiebe, Heather

Table of Contents: “…Music and cultural renewal -- "Today on earth the angels sing": carols in wartime -- Realizing Purcell -- Gloriana and the "New Elizabethans" -- Remembering faith in Noye's Fludde -- Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry.…”
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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.…”

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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Choral music on record /

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The work of opera : genre, nationhood, and sexual difference /

Table of Contents: “…Solie -- "Eros is in the word" : music, homoerotic desire, and the psychopathologies of fascism, or the "strangely fruitful intercourse" of Thomas Mann and Benjamin Britten / Daniel Fischlin -- Imagined communities : postnational Canadian opera / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon -- Mozart and the politics of intimacy : The marriage of Figaro in Toronto, Paris, and New York / Richard Dellamora -- Strange meeting : Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten, Derek Jarman, and the War requiem / Jim Ellis -- Metropolitan opera/suburban identity / Kevin Kopelson -- Divas and disease, mourning and militancy : Diamanda Galas's operatic Plague Mass / Rebecca A. …”

The Chouteaus : first family of the fur trade / by Hoig, Stan

Table of Contents: “…Threshold to an empire -- Beyond the great river -- War and peace on the Missouri -- In a Spanish dungeon -- Scions to the fore -- Amid an Indian war -- A frontier in havoc -- The "Osage outfit" -- VIPs at the Verdigris -- Probing the plains -- To the prairies unknown -- Debt unto death -- Steamboats "to the mountains" -- A mile wide and six inches deep -- Deadly cargoes : whiskey and cholera -- Charles Chouteau at the helm -- Passions of war -- Requiems in retrospect -- Addendum : the Chouteau women -- Appendix A : Chouteau families and Osage offspring -- Appendix B : Chouteau-related trading posts -- Appendix C : Chouteau-involved Indian treaties.…”
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Choral masterworks from Bach to Britten : reflections of a conductor / by Summer, Robert J., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 -- George Frideric Handel: Messiah -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339 -- Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation -- Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123 -- Franz Schubert: Mass in G major, D. 167 -- Felix Mendelssohn: Suggestions for abridged versions of Elijah -- Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 -- Giuseppe Verdi: Manzoni Requiem -- Gustav Mahler: Symphony no. 8 ("Symphony of a thousand") -- Recording the Mahler Eighth with Robert Shaw -- Thank you note from Robert Shaw -- Gabriel Faur⥺ Requiem, op. 48 -- Maurice Durufl⥺ Requiem, op. 9 -- Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms -- Benjamin Britten: relationships of the Latin Requiem mass to Wilfred Owen's poetry in the Britten War Requiem -- Appendix A: Text organizational chart for Handel's Messiah -- Appendix B: Text organizational chart for Mendelssohn's Elijah -- Appendix C: The textual organization of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Passion according to St. …”

Edward Elgar and his world /

Table of Contents: “…/ Nalini Ghuman -- Working the crowd : Elgar, class, and reformulations of popular culture at the turn of the twentieth centruy / Deborah Heckert -- Elgar's War requiem / Rachel Cowgill -- Transcending the enigmas of biography : the cultural context of Sir Edward Elgar's career / Leon Botstein.…”
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Derek Jarman's angelic conversations / by Ellis, Jim, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The last of England and the landscape of loss ; War requiem and the army of lovers -- Time and the garden. …”
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Edward Elgar and his world /

Table of Contents: “…/ Nalini Ghuman -- Working the crowd : Elgar, class, and reformulations of popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century / Deborah Heckert -- Elgar's War requiem / Rachel Cowgill -- Transcending the enigmas of biography : the cultural context of Sir Edward Elgar's career / Leon Botstein.…”
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Benjamin Britten : new perspectives on his life and work /

Table of Contents: “…Going behind Britten's back / Colin Matthews -- Performing early Britten: Signs of promise and achievement in Poèmes nos. 4 and 5 (1927) / Sharon Choa -- Shostakovich's Fourteenth symphony: A response to War requiem? / Cameron Pyke -- Six metamorphoses after Ovid and the influence of classical mythology on Benjamin Britten / George Caird -- Britten and the cinematic frame / David Crilly -- Storms, laughter and madness: Verdian 'Numbers' and generic allusions in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes / Jane Brandon -- Dramatic invention in Myfanwy Piper's libretto for Owen Wingrave / Frances Spalding -- 'The minstrel boy to the war is gone' : Father figures and fighting sons in Britten's Owen Wingrave / Arne Muus -- Made you look! …”
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Richard Hickox : a celebration.

Table of Contents: “…The Haberdasher and his fraternity : The merchant (6:28) / George Dyson -- War requiem. Libera me (extract) (5:30) / Benjamin Britten -- St. …”
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Music in Search of Itself : Essays on Music About Music. by Greene, David B.

Table of Contents: “…A Meditation on Creating; 3. Britten's War Requiem. An Indictment of Religious Music; 4. Penderecki's "De Natura sonoris". …”
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Cannons and codes : law, literature, and America's wars /

Table of Contents: “…Trenches, cadences, and faces : social connection and emotional expression in the Great War / Nancy Sherman -- Crucified by the war machine : Britten's War requiem and the hope of postwar resurrection / Martha C. …”

Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / by Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Rebuilding amid the ruins : Social transformations ; Britten's war requiem ; Musical ramifications of the Cold War ; Shostakovich's string quartet no. 8 ; For further reading -- Trajectories of order and chance : Post-World War II contexts ; Twelve-tone composition after World War II ; Integral serialism ; Chance, indeterminacy, and the blank page ; For further reading -- Electronic music from the Cold War to the computer age : Music, science, and technology in the Cold War ; Manipulating sound in the studio ; Musique concrète ; Notating, analyzing, and listening to electronic music ; Synthesizers ; Computer music ; For further reading -- Part IV: From the 1960s to the present. …”

Within a Dream : A Celebration of the Artistry of Richard Hickox.

Table of Contents: “…Gloria in excelsis Deo / Johann Nepomuk Hummel (Collegium Musicum 90) (3:35) -- War requiem : op. 66. Libera me (extract) / Benjamin Britten (Heather Harper, soprano ; Philip Langridge, tenor ; John Shirley-Quirk, bass-baritone ; Choristers of St. …”
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