Rethinking Britten

Contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction: Britten's Music and its Audiences
• Philip Rupprecht
• I Public and Private
• 1 On Ambiguity in Britten
• Paul Kildea
• 2 O Hurry to the Feted Spot of your Deliberate Fall: Death in Britten, 1936-1940
• Stephen Arthur Allen
• 3 Love Knots: Britten, Pears, and the Sonnet
• Lloyd Whitesell
• II Opera
• 4 Britten, Grimes, and the Tuneful Air
• Arved Ashby
• 5 Post-War Women in Britten
• J.P.E. Harper-Scott
• 6 Be Flat or Be Natural? Pitch Symbolism in Britten's Operas
• Mervyn Cooke
• III Post-War Encounters
• 7 Britten and the Avant-Garde in the 1950s
• Philip Rupprecht
• 8 Curlew River and Cultural Encounter
• Heather Wiebe
• 9 Britten's Rhetoric of Resistance: the Works for Rostropovich
• Arnold Whittall
• IV Late Modern
• 10 An Excess of Less? Critiquing Britten's Late Song-Cycles
• Christopher Mark
• 11 Animating Owen Wingrave: Ghosts and Global Television
• Danielle Ward-Griffin
• 12 The Dye-line Rehearsal Scores for Death in Venice
• Christopher Wintle
• Works Cited
• Index