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Tables of Contents for On Mahler and Britten
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
viii
 
List of Abbreviations
ix
 
Acknowledgements
xi
 
A Chronology
xiii
 
Donald Mitchell
Foreword
xvi
 
Marion Thorpe
I ON MAHLER
Mahler and Viennese Modernism
3
18
Paul Banks
Gustav Mahlers Sprache
21
11
Herta Blaukopf
Mahler and the BBC
32
12
Asa Briggs
Gustav Mahler: Memories and Translations
44
12
Peter Franklin
Mahler and the New York Philharmonic: The Truth Behind the Legend
56
22
Henry-Louis De La Grange
Mahler on Stamps
78
7
Gilbert Kaplan
Mahler and Self-Renewal
85
4
Colin Matthews
In Search of Mahler's Childhood
89
5
David Matthews
Vestdijk on Mahler, 1924--69; A Symphony in words
94
7
Eveline Nikkels
A New Transition: Some Pages from the Third Movement of Mahler's Ninth Symphony
101
9
Edward R. Reilly
The Song of the Earth: Some Personal Thoughts
110
5
Peter Sculthorpe
Mahler the Factual
115
4
Erwin Stein
Mahler and Pfitzner: A Parallel Development
119
16
John Williamson
II ON BRITTEN
From no to Nebuchadnezzar
135
11
Mervyn Cooke
Britten and His Fellow Composers: Six Footnotes for a Seventieth Birthday
146
21
David Drew
Donald Mitchell as Publisher: A Personal Recollection
167
3
Peter Du Sautoy
the Key to the Parade
170
2
Oliver Knussen
Notes on a Theme from Peter Grimes
172
14
Ludmila Kovnatskaya
The Making a Auden's Hymn for St Cecilia's Day
186
7
Edward Mendelson
Edinburgh Diary 1968
193
20
Kathleen Mitchell
Towards a Genealogy of Death in Venice
213
16
Christopher Palmer
Venice, 1954
229
2
Myfanwy Piper
On the Sketches for Billy Budd
231
22
Philip Reed
`Abraham and Isaac' Revisited: Reflections on a Theme and Its Inversion
253
14
Eric Roseberry
Not all the way to the Tigers; Britten's Death in Venice
267
8
Edward W. said
A (Far Eastern) Note on Paul Bunyan
275
5
Somsak Ketukaenchan
Writing and Copying: A Superficial Survey of Benjamin Britten's Music
280
10
Rosamund Strode
Along the Knife-Edge: The Topic of Transcendence in Britten's musical Aesthetic
290
9
Arnold Whittall
A Bibliography of Donald Mitchell's Writings, 1945--1995
299
32
Maureen Buja
Notes on the Contributors
331
4
Index
335
 
Jill Burrows