On Mahler and Britten
Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on His Seventieth Birthday
- Editor: Reed, A
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$43.75Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Donald Mitchell: A Chronology
- Marion Thorpe: Foreword
- Paul Banks: Mahler and Viennese Modernism-Herta Blaukopf: Gustav Mahlers Sprache
- Asa Briggs: Mahler and the BBC
- Peter Franklin: Gustav Mahler: Memories and Translations
- Henry-Louis de la Grange: Mahler and the New York Philharmonic. The Truth Behind the Legend
- Gilbert Kaplan: Mahler on Stamps
- Colin Matthews: Mahler and Self-Renewal
- David Matthews: In Search of Mahler's Childhood
- Eveline Nikkels: Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924-69. A Symphony in Words
- Edward R. Reilly: A New Transition. Some Pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninthe Symphony
- Peter Sculthorpe: The Song of the Earth. Some Personal Thoughts
- Erwin Stein: Mahler the Factual
- John Williamson: Mahler and Pfitzner. A Parallel Development
- Mervyn Cooke: From Nõ to Nebuchadnezzar
- David Drew: Britten and His Fellow Composers. Six Footnotes for a Seventieth Birthday
- Peter Du Sautoy: Donald Mitchell as Publisher. A Personal Recollection
- Oliver Knussen: The Key to the Parade
- Ludmila Kovnatskaya: Notes on a Theme from Peter Grimes
- Edward Mendelson: The Making of Auden's Hymn for St Cecilia's Day
- Kathleen Mitchell: Edinburgh Diary 1968
- Christopher Palmer: Towards a Genealogy of Death in Venice
- Myfanwy Piper: Venice, 1954
- Philip Reed: On the Sketches for Billy Budd
- Eric Roseberry: Abraham and Isaac Revisited. Reflections on a Theme and Its Inversion
- Edward W. Said: Not All the Way to the Tigers. Britten's Death in Venice
- Somsak Ketukaenchan: A (Far Eastern) Note on Paul Bunyan
- Rosamund Strode: Writing and Copying. A Superficial Survey of Benjamin Britten's Music
- Arnold Whittall: Along the Knife-Edge. The Topic of Transcendence in Britten's Musical Aesthetic
- Maureen Buja: A Bibliography of Donald Mitchell's Writings, 1945-1995
- Notes on the Contributors
- Jill Burrows: Index