All the Gods: Benjamin Britten's Night-Piece in Context

By Christopher Wintle

Christopher Wintle's in-depth examination of Britten's Notturno includes a full set of sketches, the printed score, an introductory essay and two appendices, providing a new model for the study of Britten's work in general.

Peter Pears once described Benjamin Britten as a Greek who worships all the gods'; and in order to come to terms with Britten's music it is necessary to recognize a language deeply embedded in this Western tradition.
This book is devoted to Night-piece (Notturno), written for the first Leeds International Pianoforte Competition of 1963. It addresses the work from many points of view: historical, documentary, analytical, formal, kinetic, hermeneutical, and affective. It also includes a wide range of illustrated allusions to other music, a full set of sketches, the printed score, arrays of modes and voice-leading graphs, and two appendices that take the issues of intensification and neapolitan relations further. In so doing, it provides a new model for the study of Britten's work in general.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0954012380
• ISBN13: 9780954012380
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Plumbago Books
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.6" x 8.3"