Programmatic content and associated instrumental idioms are examined in four works for solo oboe: Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, op. 49, Henri Tomasi's Évocations , Tina Nicholson's Moments from Women, and Helmut Schmidinger's Vier gefiederte Worte des Odysseus…
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Benjamin Britten's Saint Nicolas was composed in 1948 for the centennial of Lancing College, a boys' school in Sussex. It was first performed June 5, 1948, at the opening of the Aldeburgh Festival in the Aldeburgh Parish Church. The premiere was conducted by Britten, with Peter …
Exoticism literally means the infatuation with any foreign culture. One can extend that definition to the trend, style or aesthetics that dictate a synthesis of elements outside of one's culture with those of his own. In many cases, this term is actually synonymous with "Orienta…
This dissertation analyzes the organization of pitch in Benjamin Britten’s parables for church performance: Curlew River (1964), The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966), and The Prodigal Son (1968). On account of their varied influences (including medieval, modernist, and non-Western m…
This thesis demonstrates that Britten’s works were intended to arouse examination of the tension between queerness and tradition as a reflection on the cultural climate in postwar Britain. I address the enduring fixation with Britten’s “symptoms” as they permeate existing schola…