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Britten’s Musical Language

ers fresh perspectives on the composer’s fusion of verbal and

musical utterance in opera and song. It provides close interpretative studies

of the major scores (including PeterGrimes , BillyBudd , TheTurnofthe

Screw , WarRequiem , CurlewRiver ,and DeathinVenice )and explores

Britten’s ability to fashion complex and mysterious symbolic dramas from

the interplay of texted song and a wordless discourse of motives and

themes. Focusing on the performative and social basis of language, rather

than on traditional notions of textual “expression” in vocal music, Philip

Rupprecht pursues topics such as the role of naming and hate speech in

PeterGrimes ; the disturbance of ritual certainty in the WarRequiem ;and

the codes by which childish “innocence” is enacted in TheTurnoftheScrew .

is Associate Professor of Music at Brooklyn College

and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written on

twentieth-century music in a number of journals and is a contributor to

TheCambridgeCompaniontoBenjaminBritten (1999).

Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual, and

narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten’sMusical

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Music in the Twentieth Century

Arnold Whittall

ers a wide perspective on music and musical life in the twentieth century.

Books included range from historical and biographical studies concentrating particularly

on the context and circumstances in which composers were writing, to analytical and

critical studies concerned with the nature of musical language and questions of

compositional process. The importance given to context will also be re

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ected in studies

dealing with, for example, the patronage, publishing, and promotion of new music, and

in accounts of the musical life of particular countries.

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The Stravinsky Legacy

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Experimental Music:Cage and Beyond

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The Music of Harrison Birtwistle

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Four Musical Minimalists:La Monte Young, Terry Riley,

Steve Reich, Philip Glass

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Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics

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The Music of T¯ru Takemitsu

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The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett:Modern Times and Metaphysics

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Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics:Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe

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