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Britten: War Requiem (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
Britten War Requiem - Cambridge Music Handbooks
Author: Mervyn Cooke
The book examines from various viewpoints Britten's War Requiem, written in 1962 to celebrate the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral and uniting the famous anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass. Britten's and Owen's pacifist beliefs are compared, and the chronology of the compositional process unraveled from documen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521440899
ISBN-10: 0521440890
Publication Date: 11/13/1996
Pages: 125
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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