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  1. Britten's unquiet pasts
    sound and memory in postwar reconstruction
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511978951
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    Series: Music since 1900
    Subjects: Musik; Weltkrieg (1939-1945); Music / Great Britain / 20th century / History and criticism; Reconstruction (1939-1951) / Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945 / Music and the war; Zweiter Weltkrieg <Motiv>; Wiederaufbau <Motiv>; Komposition <Musik>
    Other subjects: Britten, Benjamin / 1913-1976 / Criticism and interpretation; Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 239 Seiten)
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    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

  2. British music and literary context
    artistic connections in the long nineteenth century
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk

    Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain - particularly a sense that British composers in this... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain - particularly a sense that British composers in this period somehow lacked literary credentials. ‘British Music and Literary Context’ counters this perception by showing that these composers displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. The book explores how literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a 'way in' to appreciate specific works that have traditionally been viewed as problematic. Each chapter of this interdisciplinary study juxtaposes a British composer with a particular literary counterpart or genre. Chapter one focuses upon the artistic collaboration between Hubert Parry and Robert Bridges; chapter two explores how Charles Villiers Stanford consistently returned to Tennyson's texts throughout his compositional career; chapters three and four suggest how an orchestral drama by Granville Bantock might represent a close reading of a poem by Robert Browning, and how structure and imagery in a novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton might inform a reading of Edward Elgar's Piano Quintet Op.84. The final chapter offers parallels between narrative strategies in Victorian travel literature (including works by Charles Dickens and George Gissing) and the nature of musical events in Elgar's concert overture ‘In the South’ Op.50. Issues highlighted in the book include the vexed relationship between words and music, the refiguring of literary narratives as musical structures, and the ways in which musical settings or representations of literary texts might be seen as critical 'readings' of those texts. Anyone interested in nineteenth century British music, literature and Victorian studies will find this book most stimulating. Michael Allis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music, University of Leeds

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846159558
    RVK Categories: HL 1031 ; LQ 84005
    Subjects: Geschichte; Musik; Music and literature / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Music and literature / Great Britain / History / 20th century; Music / Great Britain / 19th century / History and criticism; Music / Great Britain / 20th century / History and criticism; English literature / Musical settings / History and criticism; English poetry / Musical settings / History and criticism; Musik; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 320 pages)
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    Parry and Bridges : Music and poetry in the Invocation to Music -- Stanford and Tennyson : The musical promotion of a poet -- Bantock and Browning : Reformulated dramatic monologue in Fifine at the Fair -- Elgar and Bulwer Lytton : Hidden narrative and the piano quintet -- Elgar and travel literature : In the south and 'Imaginative Topography'

  3. British music and literary context
    artistic connections in the long nineteenth century
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk

    Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain - particularly a sense that British composers in this... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Despite several recent monographs, editions and recordings devoted to the reassessment of British music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, some negative perceptions still remain - particularly a sense that British composers in this period somehow lacked literary credentials. ‘British Music and Literary Context’ counters this perception by showing that these composers displayed a real confidence and assurance in refiguring literary texts in their music. The book explores how literary context might offer modern audiences and listeners a 'way in' to appreciate specific works that have traditionally been viewed as problematic. Each chapter of this interdisciplinary study juxtaposes a British composer with a particular literary counterpart or genre. Chapter one focuses upon the artistic collaboration between Hubert Parry and Robert Bridges; chapter two explores how Charles Villiers Stanford consistently returned to Tennyson's texts throughout his compositional career; chapters three and four suggest how an orchestral drama by Granville Bantock might represent a close reading of a poem by Robert Browning, and how structure and imagery in a novel by Edward Bulwer Lytton might inform a reading of Edward Elgar's Piano Quintet Op.84. The final chapter offers parallels between narrative strategies in Victorian travel literature (including works by Charles Dickens and George Gissing) and the nature of musical events in Elgar's concert overture ‘In the South’ Op.50. Issues highlighted in the book include the vexed relationship between words and music, the refiguring of literary narratives as musical structures, and the ways in which musical settings or representations of literary texts might be seen as critical 'readings' of those texts. Anyone interested in nineteenth century British music, literature and Victorian studies will find this book most stimulating. Michael Allis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music, University of Leeds

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846159558
    RVK Categories: HL 1031 ; LQ 84005
    Subjects: Geschichte; Musik; Music and literature / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Music and literature / Great Britain / History / 20th century; Music / Great Britain / 19th century / History and criticism; Music / Great Britain / 20th century / History and criticism; English literature / Musical settings / History and criticism; English poetry / Musical settings / History and criticism; Musik; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 320 pages)
    Notes:

    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015)

    Parry and Bridges : Music and poetry in the Invocation to Music -- Stanford and Tennyson : The musical promotion of a poet -- Bantock and Browning : Reformulated dramatic monologue in Fifine at the Fair -- Elgar and Bulwer Lytton : Hidden narrative and the piano quintet -- Elgar and travel literature : In the south and 'Imaginative Topography'

  4. Britten's unquiet pasts
    sound and memory in postwar reconstruction
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Examining the intersections between musical culture and a British project of reconstruction from the 1940s to the early 1960s, this study asks how gestures toward the past negotiated issues of recovery and renewal. In the wake of the Second World War, music became a privileged site for re-enchanting notions of history and community, but musical recourse to the past also raised issues of mourning and loss. How was sound figured as a historical object and as a locus of memory and magic? Wiebe addresses this question using a wide range of sources, from planning documents to journalism, public ceremonial and literature. Its central focus, however, is a set of works by Benjamin Britten that engaged both with the distant musical past and with key episodes of postwar reconstruction, including the Festival of Britain, the Coronation of Elizabeth II and the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral

     

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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511978951
    Other identifier:
    Series: Music since 1900
    Subjects: Musik; Weltkrieg (1939-1945); Music / Great Britain / 20th century / History and criticism; Reconstruction (1939-1951) / Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945 / Music and the war; Zweiter Weltkrieg <Motiv>; Wiederaufbau <Motiv>; Komposition <Musik>
    Other subjects: Britten, Benjamin / 1913-1976 / Criticism and interpretation; Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 239 Seiten)
    Notes:

    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

    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