Britten: War Requiem (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521440899)

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.

Author: Mervyn Cooke
ISBN-10: 0521440890
ISBN-13: 9780521440899
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/07/1996
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d