- 126 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why? Is 'classical music' all about class? Related questions underpin this partly polemical study, written by an academic who believes that the Humanities, to be really humane, must confront their methods and aims. Two recent studies of Benjamin Britten have specifically interested the author, who was educated in a world where the composer was a living subject of criticism and praise, his works reflecting values, worries and dramas that were not just about 'music'. Franklin's response is to question the recent writers, proposing that, like theirs, his own story conditioned when and how he experienced Britten. This he unfolds autobiographically in and around the discussion of specific works. Recalling his encounters with the composer as a schoolboy, as a student and opera-goer, and then as a teacher, he challenges recent assertions about Britten and modernism in the period.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Figures
- 1 Introduction: The Roots of My Musical Taste and Chowrimootoo’s Worry
- 2 Secondary-School Britten: The Turn of the Screw
- 3 Encountering Britten as a Music Student at York in the Late 1960s
- 4 Graduation: Britten and Pears Return to York
- 5 Singing at Aldeburgh: Musical Scholarship
- 6 A Trip to East Berlin and the Start of a Career
- 7 Essay: Travels. Towards Musical Meaning (The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings)
- 8 Essay: Modernism and Musicology
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index