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Volume 5, Number 2 March, 1999
Copyright � 1999 Society for Music Theory
The Heaven Singing: Music in Early English
Religious Drama
Richard Rastall
"Its scope is impressive. Rastall's task has been to explore the wide musical
spectrum of early English drama... a formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious
and comprehensive study of early English drama." _Medium aevum_
Where should there be music in an anomymous English religious play of the fifteenth or
sixteenth century? What sort of music should it be, and by what forces should it be
performed? This volume shows how music was used at the time of the plays' production, both
through a close examination of individual texts, and of the place of music in the
intellectual and artistic life of the Middle Ages.
1 color illus -, 10 b/w illus., 61 line illus.;
454pp, 234 X 156, 0-85991550-6, L19.99 $36.00 c.April 1999
Boydell & Brewer
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The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978
Peter Pears
Edited by Philip Reed
"A valuable source of material on the musical development of both Pears and Benjamin
Britten ... a 'must' for those interested in either." Opera Journal
This volume brings together all the travel diaries of Peter Pears (1910-1986). The
first diary dates from 1936, the year before Pears's friendship with Britten began, when
he went on tour in North America with the New English Singers. Other diaries record the
five-month tour of the Far East and important encounters (especially for Britten) with
the gamelan music of Bali and the Japanese Noh theatre; visits to Russia as guests of
Mstistav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya; attendance at the Ansbach Bach
festival when Pears was at the height of his career; holidays in the Caribbean and Italy,
a concert tour of the north of England, and accounts of the rehearsals and performances of
the New York premieres of 'Billy Budd' and 'Death in Venice'. The diaries, rendered in
Pears's highly individual prose, reveal much of his cultivated personality and add
significantly to knowledge of Britten. They have been scrupulously annotated by Philip
Reed, formerly at the Britten-Pears Library, now at English National Opera.
16 b/w illus.; 272pp, 234 x 156, 0-85115-741-6, c. $31.00 c.May 1999
US: Boydell & Brewer, Inc.
PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126
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