Britten's Gloriana : essays and sources
1993, 1st edition. Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press ; Britten-Pears Library. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #391216
ISBN: 0851153402
Series: Aldeburgh studies in music, v. 1. Physical description: xi, 193 pages : music ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index. Contents: "Happy were he": Benjamin Britten and the Gloriana story / Robert Hewison -- The creative evolution of Gloriana / Philip Reed -- Britten's major set-back? Aspects of the first critical response to Gloriana / Antonia Malloy -- The paradox of Gloriana: simple and difficult / Donald Mitchell -- The number principle and dramatic momentum in Gloriana / Peter Evans -- Gloriana: a list of sources / Paul Banks and Rosamund Strode -- Gloriana: a bibliography / Antonia Malloy. Subjects: Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976. Gloriana; peras. Gloriana, op53; Criticism and interpretation; Sources; Opera England 20th century; Congresses; Music.
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