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Contents
- General preface
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. An introduction in the shape of a memoir Donald Mitchell
- 2. A Death in Venice chronicle Rosamund Strode
- 3. The libretto Myfanwy Piper
- 4. The Venice sketchbook Colin Matthews
- 5. The first production Colin Graham
- 6. Synopsis: the story, the music not excluded Peter Evans
- 7. Tonal ambiguity in Death in Venice: a symphonic view Eric Roseberry
- 8. Twelve-note structures and tonal polarity John Evans
- 9. Britten and the gamelan: Balinese influences in Death in Venice Mervyn Cooke
- 10. Britten's Venice orchestra Christopher Palmer
- 11. Death in Venice and the Third String Quartet David Matthews
- 12. Mann and his novella: Death in Venice T. J. Reed
- 13. The novella transformed: Thomas Mann as opera Patrick Carnegy
- 14. Aschenbach becomes Mahler: Thomas Mann as film Philip Reed
- 15. 'I was Thomas Mann's Tadzio'
- 16. Critical reception: Britten's Venice Ned Rorem
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Discography
- Index.