Britten Experienced : Modernism, Musicology and Sentiment (Paperback)

Title and Foreword (concluding with ‘A note on the text’).
List of Figures
1. Introduction; the roots of my musical taste and Chowrimootoo’s worry -00
‘Noyes Fludde’ from the pews -00
2. Secondary-school Britten; ‘The Turn of the Screw’-00
Music A-level and ‘War Requiem’ -00
3. Encountering Britten as a music student at York in the late 1960s -00
Essay: Grimes and the Sentimental -00
4. Graduation; Britten and Pears return to York -00
Essay: Billy Budd. Confronting the Highbrow Critique of Opera -00
5. Singing at Aldeburgh; musical scholarship -00
Opera in the ’70s, and ‘Death in Venice’ -00
6. A trip to East Berlin and the start of a career -00
Teaching opera. Britten’s Death. Mahler and Donald Mitchell -00
7. Essay: Travels. Towards Musical Meaning (The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and
Strings). -00
Leeds. ‘The open secret’. Philip Brett and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. -00
8. Essay: Modernism and Musicology -00
Select Bibliography -00
Index
Acknowledgements