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Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
by Mervyn Cooke
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1996-11-13)
ISBN: 0521440890
EAN: 9780521440899
Dewy Decimal #: 782.3238
Hardcover: 125 pages
Condition: Like New
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Product Description
The book examines from various viewpoints Britten's War Requiem, written in 1962 to celebrate the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and uniting the famous anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass. Britten's and Owen's pacifist beliefs are compared, and the chronology of the compositional process unraveled from documentary and manuscript sources. The musical language is analyzed in detail, and the fluctuating critical responses to the score are assessed.
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