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Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
by Mervyn Cooke
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... logical, therefore, that Benjamin Britten should have chosen in 1960 to set nine of Owen's finest war poems in his War Requiem, juxtaposing them with the Latin Mass for the Dead to create a unique pacifist statement fully in keeping with the ... "
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War Requiem, Requiem Mass, Billy Budd, Second World War, Wilfred Owen, Ballad of Heroes, decet hymnus, composition draft, dies irae, baritone soloists, soprano soloist, vocal score
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By Angels Driven: The Films of Derek Jarman (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture , No 58)
by Chris Lippard
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... Sun (1980), Imagining October (1984), The Angelic Conversation (1985) and parts of The Last of England (1987); the 35mm features, War Requiem (1988) and The Garden (1990); and various music videos, such as Broken English (1979), The Queen is Dead (1986) and ... "
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New York, War Requiem, The Last of England, The Tempest, The Angelic Conversation, Dancing Ledge, Prince Edward, Modern Nature, mins col, composed film, queer desire, queer sexuality
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... widespread from the Nocturne (1958) and Missa Brevis (1959) onwards, and stratified polyphony culminates in the superimposed textures of the War Requiem ( ... "
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Coal Face, Peter Grimes, War Requiem, Billy Budd, Aldeburgh Festival, Spring Symphony, heterophonic techniques, interview chords, libretto drafts, folksong arrangements, tonal symbolism, violent climates
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Britten's Musical Language (Music in the Twentieth Century)
by Philip Rupprecht
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... language in its outer, culturally defined role as an element of social ritual. Examining the English/Latin linguistic tropes of the War Requiem as a disruption of the fixity of ritual, ... "
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Curlew River, Peter Grimes, War Requiem, Billy Budd, Miss Jessel, Claggart's Act, leitmotivic return, leitmotivic reference, operatic utterance, instrumental utterance, sonic gaze, thematic utterance
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