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
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)
The Tyger (music) • p14 • Analysis of some of Britten's compositional and word setting techniques: Metre, Setting the scene, Word-painting, Twelve-tone, Ending