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Peter Evans (musicologist)

Peter Angus Evans was an English musicologist, most noteworthy for his book The Music of Benjamin Britten.

Books
• "The Vocal Works", Michael Tippett: a Symposium, ed. I. Kemp (London, 1965), 135–61 • The Music of Benjamin Britten (London, 1979, 3/1996) • "Synopsis: the Story, the Music not Excluded", Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice, ed. Donald Mitchell (Cambridge, 1987), 76–85 • "The Number Principle and Dramatic Momentum in Gloriana", ''Britten's Gloriana: Essays and Sources'', ed. P. Banks (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1993), 77–93 • "Instrumental Music, I", Music in Britain: the Twentieth Century, ed. S. Banfield (Oxford, 1995), 179–277 ==Articles==
Articles
• "Seventeenth-Century Chamber Music Manuscripts at Durham", Music & Letters, xxxvi (1955), 205–23 • "Martinů the Symphonist", Tempo, nos.55–6 (1960), 19–33 • "Compromises with Serialism", Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, lxxxviii (1961–2), 1–15 • "Britten's 'War Requiem'", Tempo, nos.61–2 (1962), 20–39 • "Britten's Cello Symphony", Tempo, nos.66–7 (1963), 2–15 • "Musica Theoretica and Musica Practica: a Persistent Dichotomy" (Southampton, 1963) [inaugural lecture]; also pubd in Studies in Music [Australia], iii (1969), 1–16 • "Music of the European Mainstream, 1940–1960", The New Oxford History of Music, x (1974), 387–502 ==References==
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