The Music of Britten and Tippett

Contents

• 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.