The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten

Contents

• Introduction Mervyn Cooke;
• Part I . Apprenticeship:
• 1. Juvenilia (1922-1932) Christopher Mark;
• 2. Britten, Auden and 'Otherness' Paul Kildea;
• 3. Britten in the cinema: 'Coal Face' Philip Reed;
• Part II . The Operas:
• 4. 'He Descended into Hell': Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford and Salvation Denied Stephen Arthur Allen;
• 5. The chamber operas Arnold Whittall;
• 6. 'Gloriana': Britten's 'Slighted Child' Antonia Malloy-Chirgwin;
• 7. Britten and Shakespeare: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Mervyn Cooke;
• 8. Eros in life and death: 'Billy Budd' and 'Death in Venice' Clifford Hindley;
• Part III . Perspectives:
• 9. Distant horizons : from Pagodaland to the Church Parables Mervyn Cooke;
• 10. Violent climates Donald Mitchell;
• 11. Britten as symphonist Arved Ashby;
• 12. The concertos and early orchestral scores: aspects of style and aesthetic Eric Roseberry;
• 13. The chamber music Philip Rupprecht;
• 14. Music for voices Ralph Woodward;
• Part IV . The Composer in the Community:
• 15. Britten and the world of the child Stephen Arthur Allen;
• 16. Old songs in new contexts: Britten as arranger Eric Roseberry;
• 17. Aldeburgh Judith LeGrove.