Britten's unquiet pasts: sound and memory in postwar reconstruction

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2013-04-17otherChoice Reviews Online76 citationsclosed

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Musicology and Musical Analysis World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis

Abstract

Introduction 1. Music and cultural renewal 2. 'Today on Earth the Angels Sing': carols in wartime 3. Realizing Purcell 4. Gloriana and the 'new Elizabethans' 5. Noye's Fludde and the rituals of lost faith 6. Ghosts in the ruins: the War Requiem at Coventry.

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