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Britten on Music. Edited by Paul Kildea. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. [xv, 448 p. ISBN0-19-816714-8. $49.95.] Illustrations, indexes.
Britten on Music, the first published volume of Britten's writings, aims to be as complete an edition as current scholarship allows, including his writings published during his lifetime, drafts of unfinished writings, and speeches. Kildea includes some radio and newspaper interviews to "complete a historical narrative signposted by his forty years of prose writings and speeches" (pp. 5-6). Only interviews that illustrate aspects of Britten not found in his writings are included. Kildea adopts the term "essay" to refer to all pieces in the book regardless of format, including interviews. In spite of the inaccurate use of the word, which the author acknowledges, the term is useful.
Kildea divides the essays into five sections. The first four sections encompass Britten's 103 essays and selected interviews, and are prefaced by a quote from Britten himself to highlight the general tone of the specific period. Kildea presents the essays in chronological order "according to publication or transmission date" (p. 6) and the divisions mirroring the significant...
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