Britten’s Words  35372

  • Introduction
  • Why poetry?
    • Mrs Britten
    • W. H. Auden
    • Walter de la Mare
  • Peter Pears
  • William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’
    • William Blake
  • Edith Sitwell
  • Praise We Great Men
  • Visualisation: Screenshots of digital diagrams of the temporal relations between Britten’s songs and the lifetimes of his poets
  • Winter Words
    • Thomas Hardy
  • The song cycles
  • List of poets set

Topics covered by this book

  1. Praise We Great Men (music) • p20 • includes photo of Sitwell's manuscript, Britten's transcription into his own notebook, and the opening of Britten's manuscript sketch (one of the final examples of his handwriting)
  2. The Heart of the Matter (music) • p20
  3. Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Op.55 (music) • p20
  4. The Tyger (music) • p14 • Analysis of some of Britten's compositional and word setting techniques: Metre, Setting the scene, Word-painting, Twelve-tone, Ending
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