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Britten: War Requiem
Contributor(s): Cooke, Mervyn (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521440890     ISBN-13: 9780521440899
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $59.85  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: November 1996
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Music | History & Criticism - General
- Music | Religious - Christian
Dewey: 782.323
LCCN: 96006338
Series: Cambridge Music Handbooks
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.69 lbs) 128 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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Publisher 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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