Benjamin Britten : Billy Budd

Mervyn Cooke and Philip Reed

Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints. Melville's novella is discussed, as is the interpretation given to the novella by the librettists E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. A detailed synopsis guides the reader through the musical and dramatic action of the opera and in a chapter devoted to the music, Britten's distinctive technique of tonal symbolism is analysed to demonstrate the effectiveness of his musical response to the dramatic suggestions of Melville's story. The most important critical writings on Billy Budd are represented by an expanded version of Donald Mitchell's 1979 notebook on the opera. A final chapter charts the opera's stage history and fluctuating critical reception.

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[目次]

  • 1. Synopsis
  • 2. Herman Melville's Billy Budd
  • 3. Britten's Billy Budd: Melville as opera libretto
  • 4. From first thoughts to first night: a Billy Budd chronology
  • 5. The 1960 revisions: a two-act Billy Budd
  • 6. Britten's 'prophetic song': tonal symbolism in Billy Budd
  • 7. A Billy Budd notebook (1979-91)
  • 8. Stage history and critical reception
  • Appendices.

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書名 Benjamin Britten : Billy Budd
著作者等 Cooke, Mervyn
Reed, Philip
Wagner, Richard
書名別名 Billy Budd
シリーズ名 Cambridge opera handbooks
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1993
ページ数 xii, 180 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0521387507
0521383285
NCID BA27859966
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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