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Britten: War Requiem

by Mervyn Cooke

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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 p... Read more
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. Less

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File size8.78 X 5.63 X 0.63 in
Print pages128
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date November 7, 1996
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521440899
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