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Britten's Musical Language - Music in the Twentieth Century Rupprecht, Philip (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Britten's Musical Language - Music in the Twentieth Century
Rupprecht, Philip (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song and provides close interpretative studies of the major scores.
372 pages, 97 music examples
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 23, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521031035 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 372 |
| Dimensions | 170 × 244 × 19 mm · 599 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Whittall, Arnold |