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Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
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Excerpt - on Page 1: " ... 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 ... "

By Angels Driven: The Films of Derek Jarman (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture , No 58)
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Excerpt - on Page 2: " ... 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 ... "

The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten (Cambridge Companions to Music)
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Excerpt - on Page 176: " ... widespread from the Nocturne (1958) and Missa Brevis (1959) onwards, and stratified polyphony culminates in the superimposed textures of the War Requiem ( ... "

Britten's Musical Language (Music in the Twentieth Century)
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Excerpt - on Page 31: " ... 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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