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Peter Pears once described Benjamin Britten as 'a Greek who worships all the gods'; and in order to come to terms with Britten's music it is necessary to recognize a language deeply embedded in this Western tradition. This book is devoted to "Night-piece" ("Notturno", written for the first Leeds International Pianoforte Competition of 1963). It addresses the work from many points of view: historical, documentary, analytical, formal, kinetic, hermeneutical, and affective. It also includes a wide range of illustrated allusions to other music, a full set of sketches, the printed score, arrays of modes and voice-leading graphs, and two appendices that take the issues of intensification and neapolitan relations further. In so doing, it provides a new model for the study of Britten's work in general.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music

• Full title: All the Gods
• Subtitle: Benjamin Britten's Night-piece in Context
• Author: Christopher Wintle
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9780954012380
• ID: 04764526
• Publisher: Plumbago Books and Arts
• Weight: 660 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 172 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. September 2006

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