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Music and sexuality in Britten, selected essays, Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor

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Music and sexuality in Britten, selected essays, Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Music and sexuality in Britten

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electronic resource

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bibliographydictionaries

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798793799

Responsibility statement

Philip Brett ; edited by George E. Haggerty ; with an introduction by Susan McClary and an afterword by Jenny Doctor

Series statement

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Sub title

selected essays

Table Of Contents

Britten and Grimes -- "Grimes is at his exercise" : sex, politics, and violence in the librettos of Peter Grimes -- Grimes and Lucretia -- Salvation at sea : Britten's Billy Budd -- Character and caricature in Albert Herring -- Britten's bad boys : male relations in The turn of the screw -- Britten's dream -- Eros and orientalism in Britten's operas -- Keeping the straight line intact? Britten's relation to folksong, Purcell, and his English predecessors -- Pacifism, political action, and artistic endeavor -- Auden's Britten -- The Britten era

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