Selling Britten Music and the Market Place

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ISBN: 9780198167150 | 0198167156
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/24/2002

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Benjamin Britten's relationships with Boosey & Hawkes, Decca, Covent Garden, the Aldeburgh Festival, the English Opera Group, and the Arts Council, had a huge influence on the music he wrote. This book explores the effect of these commercial and national institutions on the music of one of the foremost British composers of the twentieth century.

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List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Carrying Music to the Masses	p. 9
Dots on Paper	p. 12
The Economics of Genre: Performance	p. 18
The Economics of Genre: Publishing	p. 23
The Economics of Genre: Performing Right	p. 27
An Incidental Market?	p. 31
Selling Britten	p. 37
Britten and the BBC	p. 42
Policy, Genre, and Broadcasting in the 1930s	p. 44
Creating and Losing an Audience	p. 61
Rehabilitation	p. 67
The Impresario and the English Opera Group	p. 74
The Glyndebourne English Opera Company	p. 75
Albert Herring and the New English Opera Group	p. 86
Begging for Opera	p. 91
Making an Opera	p. 97
The Festival of Britain	p. 102
The Sorry Tale of Mr. Tod	p. 107
The Turn of the Screw	p. 108
The Arts Council's Pursuit of 'Grand Opera'	p. 117
A Budget for Music	p. 118
A Further Budget for Music	p. 122
Billy Budd and Grand Opera	p. 125
A Coronation Opera	p. 132
A Case for Grand Opera	p. 139
Aldeburgh's Court Composer	p. 148
Britain's Festival Culture	p. 149
House of Straw: Artists, Money, and the Floundering Fifties (1948-1958)	p. 153
House of Brick: Towards Snape Maltings (1959-1968)	p. 170
Britten as Court Composer	p. 177
Recording a Republitation	p. 194
Electric Recording: 1925-1949	p. 198
The Long-Playing Record: 1950-1957	p. 211
The Stereophonic Record: 1958-1976	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 233
Index of Britten's Works	p. 239
General Index	p. 243
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Selling Britten Music and the Market Place

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