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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre by David Beard. Cambridge University Press, £70.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2013

Edward Venn
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Tempo , Volume 67 , Issue 266 , October 2013 , pp. 93 - 94
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References

1 Hall, Michael, Harrison Birtwistle (London, 1984)Google Scholar and Harrison Birtwistle in Recent Years (London, 1998)Google Scholar; Cross, Jonathan, Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music (London, 2000)Google Scholar; and Adlington, Robert, The Music of Harrison Birtwistle (Cambridge, 2000).Google Scholar

2 Cross, Jonathan, Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus (Aldershot, 2009).Google Scholar

3 Hall, Michael, ‘The sanctity of the context: Birtwistle's recent music’, Musical Times 129 (January 1988), 14–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See ‘The Shadow of Opera: Dramatic Narrative and Musical Discourse in Gawain’, twentieth-century music 2/2 (Sept 2005), 159–95CrossRefGoogle Scholar and ‘“A Face Like Music”: Shaping Images into Sound in The Second Mrs Kong’, Cambridge Opera Journal 18/3 (November 2006), 273–300.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 The Minotaur, Royal Opera House/Opus Arte 2008, OA 1000 D (DVD).