Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)

Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
by Mervyn Cooke

Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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Author: Mervyn Cooke
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-11-13
ISBN: 0521446333
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary of Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)

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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