Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays

by Philip Brett

Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century. This volume is the first to gather in one collection Brett's searching and provocative work on the great British composer. Some of the early essays opened the door to gay studies in music, while the discussions that Brett initiated reinvigorated the study of Britten's work and inspired a generation of scholars to imagine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520246101
• ISBN13: 9780520246102
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"