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Product Description: The sixth and final volume of correspondence covers the composer's last decade. The genesis, composition and premieres of major stage works such as Owen Wingrave, commissioned by BBC Television, and Death in Venice are fully documented, as are the church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son...read more
By Mervyn Cooke (editor) and Philip Reed (editor)
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9781843837251 | Boydell Pr, November 15, 2012, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The sixth and final volume of correspondence covers the composer's last decade.
9780520242593 | Univ of California Pr, January 8, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Letters by the British composer to his friends, family, and colleagues document his life from school days to the end of World War II

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Product Description: The guide has an article that details the compositional process of the opera and the relationship between Britten and his librettists. A detailed musical analysis looks at the score and a further article describes the opera's critical reception and performance history...read more
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9781847495501 | Trafalgar Square, August 1, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The guide has an article that details the compositional process of the opera and the relationship between Britten and his librettists.

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Product Description: A detailed guide to Benjamin Britten's seventh major opera, which had its premiere in 1960 Benjamin Britten and his partner Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare's much-loved comedy, using (with the exception of only one line) Shakespeare's own text, as well as cutting and simplifying the play...read more
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9781847495440 | Trafalgar Square, August 1, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A detailed guide to Benjamin Britten's seventh major opera, which had its premiere in 1960 Benjamin Britten and his partner Peter Pears adapted Shakespeare's much-loved comedy, using (with the exception of only one line) Shakespeare's own text, as well as cutting and simplifying the play.

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Product Description: Songs by the great English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, realized by Britten, most suitable for student singers have been selected for this collection. Contents: Fairest Isle * Hark the ech'ing air * How blest are shepherds * I attempt from love's sickness to fly * I'll sail upon the Dog-star * If music be the food of love (1st version) * Man is for the woman made * Music for a while * On the brow of Richmond Hill * There's not a swain of the plain * Turn then thine eyes * We sing to him...read more
By Benjamin Britten (editor) and Henry Purcell (composer)
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9781423479895 | Pap/com edition (Boosey & Hawkes, June 1, 2009), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Songs by the great English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, realized by Britten, most suitable for student singers have been selected for this collection.

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Product Description: Songs by the great English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, realized by Britten, most suitable for student singers have been selected for this collection. Contents: Fairest Isle * Hark the ech'ing air * How blest are shepherds * I attempt from love's sickness to fly * I'll sail upon the Dog-star * If music be the food of love (1st version) * Man is for the woman made * Music for a while * On the brow of Richmond Hill * There's not a swain of the plain * Turn then thine eyes * We sing to him...read more
By Benjamin Britten (contributor) and Henry Purcell (composer)
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9781423479888 | Pap/com edition (Boosey & Hawkes, June 1, 2009), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Songs by the great English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, realized by Britten, most suitable for student singers have been selected for this collection.

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Product Description: This selection was made with student singers and pianists in mind. These are 12 of the most tangible, useful and approachable of Britten's jewel-like folksong settings. Includes historical notes on the songs. The CD of performances by professional singers will aid in familiarizing students and teachers with these expressive lyrical works...read more
By Benjamin Britten (composer) and Richard Walters (editor)
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9781423441304 | Pap/com edition (Boosey & Hawkes, June 1, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This selection was made with student singers and pianists in mind.

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Product Description: This landmark publication includes 61 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions. Some of the songs have never before been transposed. The songs of Volume 6, for voice and guitar, have been transcribed for voice and piano for this edition...read more
By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9781423421573 | Boosey & Hawkes, August 1, 2006, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This landmark publication includes 61 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions.
9781423421566 | Boosey & Hawkes, August 1, 2006, cover price $29.99
9781423418177 | Boosey & Hawkes, July 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This landmark publication includes 52 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions.
9781423418184 | Boosey & Hawkes, July 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This landmark publication includes 52 songs, combining the contents of the seven published books of Britten folksong arrangements in High and Low Voice editions.

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By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571523764 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 2006, cover price $50.25

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Comprises: Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals and The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Performed by, Marian Lapsansky and Peter Toperczer, Piano and the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Conductor, Ondrej Lenard.
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9781030503358 | Naxos Audiobooks Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $10.45 | About this edition: Comprises: Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals and The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

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Product Description: Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a major factor in the transformation during his lifetime of the structure of the art-music industry. This book, by bringing together all his published articles, unpublished speeches, drafts, and transcriptions of numerous radio interviews, explores the paradox of a reluctant yet influential cultural commentator, artist, and humanist...read more
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9780198167143 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 9, 2003, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker.

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By Benjamin Britten (editor)
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9780571501786 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 2003, cover price $11.95

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By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571554928 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $21.25

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By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571564453 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $21.25

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Product Description: Eleven part ensemble score.
By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571505999 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $22.25 | About this edition: Eleven part ensemble score.

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Product Description: Britten's last completed work, written for young people's Chorus and Orchestra, is in five short sections: March, Roundel and Canon for Orchestra and Choir, and Jig and Modulation for Orchestra alone. This Vocal Score edition features a Piano reduction of the original Orchestral score...read more
By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571525263 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $5.80 | About this edition: Britten's last completed work, written for young people's Chorus and Orchestra, is in five short sections: March, Roundel and Canon for Orchestra and Choir, and Jig and Modulation for Orchestra alone.

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By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571566617 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $22.25

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By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571561186 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $21.25

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Product Description: These Christmas carols have become contemporary classics. The Serene Sweet Was the Song contrasts with a moving lament on the hardships of Christmas, A Wealdon Trio, and a memorable setting of Hardy's fine poem The Oxen.
By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571518609 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $7.25 | About this edition: These Christmas carols have become contemporary classics.

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By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571505944 | Faber & Faber, January 1, 2003, cover price $4.80

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Product Description: This early Britten work for violin and viola with orchestra has been prepared by Colin Matthews from a sketch which was complete in virtually every detail including instrumentation, but never finished.Orchestral material is available on hire.
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9780193622524 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 21, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This early Britten work for violin and viola with orchestra has been prepared by Colin Matthews from a sketch which was complete in virtually every detail including instrumentation, but never finished.

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Product Description: for soprano soloist, SATB choir, and organ or orchestra (strings and harp)This is an attractive and versatile choral piece suitable for liturgical and concert use. It can either be performed with organ accompaniment as in the vocal score, or in the orchestral version (made a year after the original version for choir and organ (1935))...read more
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9780193515246 | Revised edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 14, 2002), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: for soprano soloist, SATB choir, and organ or orchestra (strings and harp)This is an attractive and versatile choral piece suitable for liturgical and concert use.

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Product Description: for narrator, SATB choir, and orchestraThis work was written for a BBC broadcast in 1938 and is now published for the first time. The ten sections include a strongly uplifting central section and conclude with a setting of the Veni creator spiritus...read more
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9780193353947 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 20, 2001, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: for narrator, SATB choir, and orchestraThis work was written for a BBC broadcast in 1938 and is now published for the first time.

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Product Description: for narrator, SATB choir, and orchestraThis work was written for a BBC broadcast in 1938 and is now published for the first time. The ten sections include a strongly uplifting central section and conclude with a setting of the Veni creator spiritus...read more
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9780193353954 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 24, 2001, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: for narrator, SATB choir, and orchestraThis work was written for a BBC broadcast in 1938 and is now published for the first time.

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Product Description: Benjamin Britten wrote his String Quartet in F in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge. He was fourteen at the time and it is thought that this piece was set as a homework exercise by this new teacher. This study score is in four parts.
By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571519019 | Faber & Faber, August 1, 2000, cover price $16.25 | About this edition: Benjamin Britten wrote his String Quartet in F in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge.

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Product Description: Benjamin Britten wrote his String Quartet in F in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge. He was fourteen at the time and it is thought that this piece was set as a homework exercise by this new teacher.
By Benjamin Britten (composer)
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9780571519026 | Faber & Faber, May 1, 2000, cover price $22.25 | About this edition: Benjamin Britten wrote his String Quartet in F in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge.

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