Faber and Faber

Churchill’s Wizards

Part I The War of Nerves The Nature of Camouflage Engineering Opinion Hiding and Sniping Deception in the Dardanelles Steel Trees Guile and Guerilla The Twice-promised Land A Dazzle of Zebras Lying for Lloyd George Deceivers Deceived Part II Wizards of WW2 Curtain Up Winston is Back Hiding the Silver A Great Blow Between the …

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The Ninth

Prelude A Grand Symphony with Many Voices 1824, or How Artists Internalize Revolution Imagining the Ninth To Begin Anew Postlude

Broken Vows

New Labour Takes Charge The Beginning Uninvited Citizens Restoring a Vision The Gospel Broken Vows, Part 1 The Battle Plan Old King Coal The Wall Crumbles A Government Adrift Frustration The War Project A Demon to Slaughter Saving the NHS Everything is PR Clutching at Straws Class Conflicts Unkind Cuts The 2001 Election A Second …

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The National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch

Author’s Note   Gregory Burke Director’s Note   John Tiffany Forward the Forty-Second!   Lt Col Matt Whitney (retd, US Army) Perspective Power Empathy for the Warrior Production Timeline Awards for Black Watch The National Theatre of Scotland Cast, Creative and Production Teams Thanks Characters Black Watch

The Open Circle

Home: The Bouffes du Nord Preparation: 1968-1974 The Rough Arena: Timon of Athens, The Ik, Ubu aux Bouffes The Conference of the Birds and The Cherry Orchard La Tragédie de Carmen The Mahabharata Return: The Tempest and Impressions du Pelléas The Acting Island: From The Man Who to The Tragedy of Hamlet Endpieces Jean-Claude Carrière …

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Rock, Jazz & Pop Arranging

Introduction How to use this book Incidentals A note to the professional The Routine: The Lead Sheet Routining a cover version The lead sheet More details Routining a new arrangement Routining your own tune Overview Vocals Lead vocals: sung Lead vocals: rap Backing vocals (bvox) Chorus backing Three girls, three boys Lead singer as bvox …

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The Beethoven Companion

The Man and Artist Beethoven as Man and Artist   Philip Barford The Pianos and the Piano Music Beethoven’s Pianos   Derek Melville The Piano Music—I   Harold Truscott The Piano Music—II   Philip Barford The Chamber Music The Chamber Music with Piano   Nigel Fortune The Chamber Music for Strings   Robert Simpson The Orchestral Music The Symphonies and Overtures   …

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The Classical Style

Introduction The Musical Language of the Late Eighteenth Century[rtoc] Period style and group style Tonality Tonic-dominant polarity Equal temperament Modulation Weakening of linear form[/rtoc] Theories of Form[rtoc] Nineteenth-century conception of sonata form Twentieth-century revisions Schenker Motivic analysis Vulgar errors[/rtoc] The Origins of the Style[rtoc] Dramatic character of the classical style Range of styles 1755-1775 Public …

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Rifles

Preface Departures: May 1809 Talavera: July-August 1809 Guadiana: August-December 1809 Barba del Puerco: January-July 1810 The Coa: July 1810 Wounded: July-August 1810 Buasco: September 1810 The Corporal’s Stripes: September 1810-February 1811 Pombal: March-April 1811 Sabugal: April 1811 Fuentes d’Onoro: May-June 1811 The Gentleman Volunteer: June-September 1811 Deserters: October-December 1811 The Storm of Ciudad Rodrigo: January …

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Believing in Opera

Foreword   Matthew A. Epstein Believing in Opera Peter Brook and theatrical opera Theory of interpretation A repertoire of classics The design matrix Patrice Chéreau: revolutionary classicism Ruth Berghaus: Marx, feminism and the absurd David Alden: expressionist shock Peter Sellars: Americanizing everything Richard Jones: burlesque profundities Graham Vick: neo-realism and emotion Albery, Pimlott, Cairns: British expressionism …

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Cats: The Book of the Musical

Concerning Cats ‘Up up up to the Heaviside Layer’   Andrew Lloyd Webber Apropos of Practical Cats   Valerie Eliot The Making of Cats   Trevor Nunn The choreographing of Cats   Gillian Lynne ‘A giant playground for cats’ – Designed by John Napier From the Libretto

Gerald Finzi

From Padua to Harrogate Youthful indiscretions Arts and Crafts in the Cotswolds London A problematic portfolio Marriage and maturity Aldbourne and Ashmansworth Finzi’s war The Three Choirs composer Scholarship and conservation Time’s wingèd chariot Afterwards Appendix: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Taste

Foreword Imbroglio Taste: The Story of an Idea Scenario Architecture: Painting the Lily Interiors: Vacuums of Taste Fashion: Being and Dressing Food: Acquired Taste The Sport of Things

Benjamin Britten: His Life and Operas

Prefac to the Second edition  Life Early Work and Training Collaboration with W. H. Auden American Visit In Wartime England First Operatic Successes Festival Interlude Aldeburgh: Living in Crabbe Street Aldeburgh: At the Red House Personal Postscript The Operas Appendices include: Extract from The Britten Estate Executors’ Press Statement (1967) Establishment of the Britten-Pears Library …

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