The musical magic of ambiguity in Benjamin Britten’s <i>Death in Venice</i>
This essay investigates the blurred musical significations in Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice, an opera based on Thomas Mann’s important novella Der Tod in Venedig. The discussion of multiple meanings links up with two categories of ambiguity as set out by William Empson in his Seven Types of Amb...
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2001-06-01
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| Series: | Literator |
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| Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/369 |