Title:
Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice / compiled and edited by Donald Mitchell.
Author:
Mitchell, Donald, 1925-2017.
Publication Information:
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Call Number:
ML410.B853 B42 1987
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam051/86023231.htmlTable of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780521265348.pdf
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam051/86023231.html
ISBN:
9780521265348
9780521319430
Series:
Cambridge opera handbooks
Cambridge opera handbooks.
Physical Description:
xvi, 229 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
An introduction in the shape of a memoir / A Death in Venice chronicle / The libretto / The Venice sketchbook / The first production / Synopsis : the story, the music not excluded / Tonal ambiguity in Death in Venice : a symphonic view / Twelve-note structures and tonal polarity / Britten and the gamelan : Balinese influences in Death in Venice / Britten's Venice orchestra / Death in Venice and the Third string quartet / Mann and his novella : Death in Venice / The novella transformed : Thomas Mann as opera / Aschenback becomes Mahler : Thomas Mann as film / 'I was Thomas Mann's Tadzio' -- Critical reception : Britten's Venice
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