A Britten Bibliography

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Biographies

• Blyth, Alan. Remembering Britten. London : Hutchinson, 1981. 181 p. , [8]p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN:0091449502
• Britten, Beth, 1909- My brother Benjamin. Abbotsbrook, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire : Kensal Press, c1986. xiii, 209 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0946041407
• Carpenter, Humphrey. Benjamin Britten: A Biography. New York : C. Scribner's Sons, c1992. x, 677 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN:0684195690
• Duncan, Ronald Frederick Henry, 1914. Working with Britten : a personal memoir. Bideford, Devon, England : Rebel Press, 1981
• Headington, Christopher. Britten. New York : Holmes & Meier, 1982, c1981. x, 166 p. , [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. OR London : Methuen, 1981. x, 166 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. ISBN:0841908028 or ISBN:0841908036
• Holst, Imogen, 1907- Britten. 3d ed. London ; Boston : Faber & Faber, 1980. 96p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN:0571180000 (2nd ed. London, Faber, 1970. = ISBN:0571066011)
• Kendall, Alan, 1939- Benjamin Britten. Introduction by Yehudi Menuhin. [London] Macmillan [1973]112 p. illus. 28 cm. ISBN:0333152263
• Kennedy, Michael, 1926- Britten. London : Dent, 1981. xi, 356 p. , [12] p. ofplates : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN:0460031759
• Mitchell, Donald, 1925- Britten and Auden in the Thirties, the Year 1936. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1981. 176 p. , [4] leaves of plates: ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN:0295958146
• Mitchell, Donald, 1925- Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 : a pictorial biography, (Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Pictures from a Life) with the assistance of John Evans. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1978. viii, [193], 16 p. : chiefly ill. ; 26 cm. ISBN:0684159740
• Oliver, Michael Benjamin Britten. Chronicle Books, 240 p. ISBN:0714832774
• Tippins, Sherrill February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof In Wartime America . Houghton Mifflin, 224 p. ISBN:061841911X
• White, Eric Walter, 1905- Benjamin Britten, his life and operas. 2nd ed. edited by John Evans. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1983. 322p. : ill. , music ; 26 cm. OR [New ed. ]London, Faber, 1970. 256p. , 24 plates. illus., music, ports. 26 cm. ISBN:0571091512 or ISBN:0520048946

Criticism and Interpretation

The Operas - General

• The Operas of Benjamin Britten : the complete librettos illustrated with designs of the first productions edited by David Herbert ; preface by PeterPears. London : H. Hamilton, 1979. xxxi, 384 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 29 cm. OR contributions by Janet Baker . . . [et al. ]. New York : Columbia University Press, 1979. xxxi, 382 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. ISBN:0231048688
• Howard, Patricia. Operas of Benjamin Britten; An Introduction Patricia Howard. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976, c1969. 236 p. : music ; 22 cm. ISBN:0837188679 OR London, Barrie & Rockliffthe Cresset P. , 1969. x, 236 p. music. 23 cm. ISBN:0214660559 OR New York, F. A. Praeger[1969]236 p. music. 23 cm.
• Sutcliffe, James Helme. Die Buhnenwerke Benjamin Brittens James Helme Sutcliffe. [S. l. ] : J. H. Sutcliffe, c1983. ix, 64 leaves ; 21 cm.

The Operas - Specific Works

• Cooke, Mervyn. Benjamin Britten: "Billy Budd" Mervyn Cooke and Philip Reed. Cambridge[England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii, 180 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN:0521440890 or ISBN:0521387507
• Fougerousse, James. Billy Budd from novel to opera. 1975.
• Death in Venice compiled and edited by Donald Mitchell. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. xvi, 229 p. : ill. , music, port. ; 23 cm. ISBN:0521265347
• Schmidgall, Gary, 1945- Literature as opera Gary Schmidgall. Oxford ; New York : OxfordUniversity Press, 1980, c1977. xi, 431 p. : music ; 21 cm. SUBJECTS:Opera--Dramaturgy. Music and literature. Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice. ISBN:0195022130
• Britten's Gloriana : essays and sources edited by Paul Banks. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N. Y. : Boydell Press ; Aldeburgh [England] : Britten-Pears Library, 1993. xi, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0851153402
• Godsalve, William L. H. , 1913- Britten's a Midsummer Night's Dream : making an opera from Shakespeare's comedy William H. L. Godsalve. Rutherford [N. J. ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 1995. p. cm. ISBN:0838635512
• Paul Bunyan W.H. Auden ; the libretto of the operetta by Benjamin Britten ; with an essay by Donald Mitchell. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1988 ISBN:0571151426
• Peter Grimes; essays by Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster, Montagu Slater [and] Edward Sackville-West; designs by Kenneth Green. London, Published for the governors of Sadler's Wells Foundation by John Lane, 1945. 55 p. illus. ,port. , music. 19 cm.
• Peter Grimes compiled by Philip Brett. Cambridge,[Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983. xiii, 217 p. :ill. , music ; 22 cm. ISBN:0521297168
• Peter Grimes ; Gloriana / Benjamin Britten. London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun, 1983. Series title: Opera guide ; 24. ISBN:0714538566
• Making of Peter Grimes: The Facsimile of Britten's Composition Draft edited by Paul Banks. Boydell and Brewer, Inc. 1996, 256 p. ISBN:0851156320
• The Rape of Lucretia, a symposium by Benjamin Britten [and others]. London, Bodley Head [1948].
• The Turn of the screw edited by Patricia Howard. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985. xi,164 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN:0521283566

Other Specific Works

• Cooke, Mervyn. Britten, War Requiem Mervyn Cooke. Cambridge[England]: Cambridge University Press, 1997.125 p. ISBN:0521446333

Britten's Music in General

• Benjamin Britten: A Commentary on His Works from a Group of Specialists. Edited by Donald Mitchell and Hans Keller. Westport, Conn. , Greenwood Press[1972, c1952]xvi, 410 p. illus. 23 cm. ISBN:0837156238
• Britten Companion edited by Christopher Palmer. Cambridge[Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984. 485 p. :ill. , music ; 23 cm. ISBN:052126121X or ISBN:0521278449 [Faber and Faber ISBN 0571131476 (hard) 0571131689 (pbk)]
• The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten. Edited by Mervyn Cooke. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 052157384X or ISBN:0521574765
• On Mahler and Britten: Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell on his Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Philip Reed. Britten-Pears Library, 1995. (Reprint Boydell & Brewer, 1998 ISBN:0851156142)
• Evans, John, 1953-A Britten source book compiled by John Evans, Philip Reed, Paul Wilson. Rev ed. Alderburgh, Suffolk : Published for the Britten-Pears Library,Aldeburgh by the Britten Estate, 1987. 328 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN:0951193902
• Evans, Peter, 1929- Music of Benjamin Britten. London : J. M. Dent, 1979. vii, 564 p. : music ; 24 cm. ISBN:0460043501 OR Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,1979. vii, 564 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN:0816608369 ISBN:0198165900
• Hodgson, Peter John. Benjamin Britten: A Guide to Research Peter John Hodgson, edited by Guy A. Marco. Garland Publishing, Inc. 1996. 264 p. ISBN:0815317956
• Mark, Christopher, 1959- Early Benjamin Britten: A Study of Stylistic and Technical Evolution. New York : Garland, 1995. xi, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0815318707
• Whittall, Arnold. Music of Britten and Tippett: Studies in Themes and Techniques. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. vii, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0521385016 or ISBN:0521235235 (hard) 0521386683 (pbk. )

Britten's Writings

• Letters from a Life; The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 edited by Donald Mitchell ; assistant editor, Philip Reed ;associate editors, Rosamund Strode, Kathleen Mitchell, Judy Young. Berkeley :University of California Press, 1991. 2 v. (xxx, 1403 p. ) : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0520065204

• The wonderful world of music by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst;collages by Ceri Richards. London, Macdonald & Co. , 1968. 96 p. illus. (somecol. ), facsims. , music (incl. 2 col. ), ports. 28 cm. OR N. Y. , Doubleday [1968]96 p. illus. (part col. ), facsims. (part col. ), music, ports. 28 cm.

• "An English composer sees America" in Tempo i, 1940
• "On behalf of Gustav Mahler" in Tempo ii, 1942
• "Conversation with Benjamin Britten" in Tempo 1944
• "A Note on the Spring Symphony" in Music Survey Spring 1950
• Contribution to "Verdi: a symposium" in Opera February 1951
• "Variations on a critical theme" in Opera March 1952
• "Three Premieres" in Kathleen Ferrier, as Memoir
• "On realising the continuo in Purcell's songs" in Henry Purcell 1659 1695
• "Britten Looking Back" in Sunday Telegraph 17 November 1963
• "Benjamin Britten" in British Composers in Interview M. Schafer
• "Frank Bridge 1899-1941" in Faber Music News
• "On writing English opera" in Opera 12 1961
• "Early influences: a tribute to Frank Bridge" in Composer 19
• "On Receiving the First Aspen Award" Faber and Faber 1964 ISBN:0571100236

• Gishford, Anthony. Grand opera: the story of the world's leading opera houses and personalities; edited by Anthony Gishford; introduced by Benjamin Britten. London,Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. 272 p. illus. (some col. ), facsims. , ports. (some col. ). 26 cm. ISBN:0297994727 OR New York, Viking Press [1972]272 p. illus. 26 cm. ISBN:0670347493
• Holst, Imogen, 1907- An ABC of Music : a short practical guide to the basic essentials of rudiments, harmony, and form by Imorgen Holst ; with a foreword by Benjamin Britten. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985 printing, c1963. xiii, 189 p. : music ; 20 cm. ISBN:0193171031
• Nordoff, Paul, 1909- Therapy in music for handicapped children [by] Paul Nordoff and CliveRobbins; with a foreword by Benjamin Britten. [New ed. ]London, Gollancz,1971. 176 p. illus. 21 cm. OR New York, St. Martin's Press[1972, c1971] 144 p. illus. 21 cm.
• Pettitt, Stephen J. , 1945- Dennis Brain : a biography; with an appreciation by Benjamin Britten. London : Hale, 1976. 192 p. , [4] leaves of plates : ill. ;23 cm. ISBN:070915772X
• Stein, Erwin, 1885-1958. Form and Performance; with a foreword by Benjamin Britten. 1st Limelight ed. New York : Limelight Editions, 1989, c1962. 183 p. : ill. ;22 cm. ISBN:0879100613
• White, Eric Walter, 1905- The rise of English opera. Introd. by Benjamin Britten. New foreword by theauthor. New York, Da Capo Press, 1972. vi, 335 p. illus. 22 cm. OR London, J. Lehmann, 1951. 335 p. illus. , ports. , facsims. , music. 23 cm. ISBN:0306717093

Catalogues and Discographies

• Boosey & Hawkes, ltd. , London. Benjamin Britten; a complete catalogue of his published works. [Rev. ed. ]London, 1973. 52 p. facsims. , port. 26 cm.
• Parsons, Charles H. , 1940- Benjamin Britten Discography compiled by Charles H. Parsons. Lewiston :E. Mellen Press, 1990. 247 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN:0889464863
• Weber, J. F. Benjamin Britten J. F. Weber. Utica, N. Y. : Weber, 1975. vi, 58 p. ; 28cm. :Discography series

Other Books

• Benjamin Britten's poets : the poetry he set to music / edited by Boris Ford. Manchester, England : Carcanet, 1994. ISBN:1857540220
• Cooke, Mervyn. Britten & the Far East Mervyn Cooke. Boydell and Brewer, Inc., 1998. 256 p. ISBN:0851155790
• Godfrey, Paul. Once in a while the Odd Thing Happens: A Play from the Life of Benjamin Britten / Paul Godfrey. London : Methuen Drama ; Portsmouth, NH : distributed by HEB, 1990. Series title: A Methuen new theatre script ISBN:0413644804
• Headington, Christopher. Peter Pears: A Biography Christopher Headington. Faber and Faber, 1993. 368 p. ISBN:0571170722

Dissertations

In the following list, UCLA indicates that I located these dissertations in the UCLA library catalogue.

• Allen, Debra K. (Debra Kaye) Drama and characterization in opera settings of A midsummer nights dream by Britten and Siegmeister 1982.
• Bach, Jan. An analysis of Britten's "A Midsummer Nights's Dream" 1971. UCLA
• Boos, Kenneth G. A study of the relationship between text and music in five selected choral works of Benjamin Britten. 1986. UCLA
• Boubel, Karen Brandser. The conflict of good and evil : a musical and dramatic study of Britten's "Billy Budd". c1985. UCLA
• Brewster, Robert Gene, 1936- The relationship between poetry and music in the original solo-vocal works of Benjamin Britten through 1965. 1967. Series title: Doctoral series ; no.5122. UCLA
• Cooke, M. Oriental influences in the music of Benjamin Britten 1989 University of Cambridge
• Deavel, R. Gary, 1929- A study of two operas by Benjamin Britten : Peter Grimes and The turn of the screw. 1970. UCLA
• Elliot, G. Benjamin Britten: the things spiritual. 1985 The University of Wales
• Evans, John, 1953- Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice : perspectives on an opera. 1984. University of Wales
• Feldman, James Allen. The musical portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach in Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice. 1987. UCLA
• Hall, William Dawson, 1934- The requiem mass: a study of performance practices from the baroque era to the present day as related to four requiem settings by Gilles, Mozart, Verdi and Britten 1970. UCLA
• Hwang, Der-Shin. Performance practice problems in Benjamin Britten's song cycle A charm of lullabies, op. 41, for mezzo-soprano. 1988. UCLA
• Jennings, John Wells. The influence of W. H. Auden on Benjamin Britten. 1979. UCB
• Lewin, Ann Rebekah. Text setting in the songs of Benjamin Britten. 1964. UCI
• Mark, Christopher Stylistic and technical evolution in the early music of Britten. 1989 University of Southampton
• Marsh, M. The Turn of the Screw: Britten's and Piper's operatic fulfillment of Henry James's Novella. 1983 University of London, Royal Holloway College
• Mayer, Mark. A structural and stylistic analysis of the Benjamin Britten Curlew River. 1983. UCLA
• McGiffert, G. The Musico-dramatic techniques of Benjamin Britten: a detailed study of Peter Grimes. 1980 University of Denver
• Meister, Barbara, 1932- The interaction of music and poetry : a study of the poems of Paul Verlaine as set to music by Claude Debussy and of the song cycle Songs and proverbs of William Blake by Benjamin Britten. c1987. UCLA
• Mertz, Margaret Stover. History, criticism and the sources of Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia. 1990. UCLA
• Novak, Elizabeth Gay Moore. A ceremony of carols : a program of liturgical dance. 1982. UCLA
• Oosting, Stephen. Text-music relationships in Benjamin Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings 1985. University of Rochester
• Packales, Joseph. Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes : an analysis. 1984.
• Phillips, Betty Lou. Relationships between text and music in Benjamin Britten's song cycle, Les illuminations, opus 18. 1989. UCLA
• Scherr, Suzanne Colette. Non-determined temporal devices in post-1960 Britten : an analytical investigation .... 1981. UCLA

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