Billy BuddCambridge University Press, 8 jul 1993 - 180 pagina's 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 analyzed 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. |
Inhoudsopgave
Synopsis | 1 |
Herman Melvilles Billy Budd | 15 |
Brittens Billy Budd Melville as opera libretto | 27 |
From first thoughts to first night a Billy Budd chronology | 42 |
The 1960 revisions a twoact Billy Budd | 74 |
Brittens prophetic song tonal symbolism in Billy Budd | 85 |
A Billy Budd notebook 19791991 | 111 |
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Aldeburgh allusion ambiguity appears aria Auden Basil Coleman Benjamin Britten Billy Budd Billy's execution Britten-Pears Library Britten's Billy Budd cabin Cambridge Captain Vere chapter character chord chorus Claggart composer composer's Covent Garden cresc critical Dansker Death in Venice December deck discussion Donald Mitchell doubt dramatic E. M. Forster English National Opera Epilogue Eric Crozier Essex Evans evil F minor final flat major Forster wrote four-act Furbank Gloriana Governess Governess's handsome Harewood homosexual Indomitable innocence interview key signature Krips later letter librettists libretto Lieutenant London master-at-arms Melville Melville's Billy Budd Melville's story MERVYN COOKE Moby-Dick mutiny National Opera novel novella Novice orchestral original performance Peter Grimes Peter Pears Philip Reed premiere Prologue Redburn rehearsals rôle sail sailors score semitonal sexual shanty ship ship's sing stage stammer suggested symbolic theme Theodor Uppman tonal triads trial scene two-act version Vere's White-Jacket writing
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