Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Middlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.…”
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Instruments for New Music : Sound, Technology, and Modernism / by Patteson, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Listening to instruments -- "The joy of precision" : mechanical instruments and the aesthetics of automation -- "The alchemy of tone" : Jörg Mager and electric music -- "Sonic handwriting" : media instruments and musical inscription -- "A new, perfect musical instrument" : the trautonium and electric music in the 1930s -- The expanding instrumentarium.…”
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