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Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The work in the world; 2. Reflections,reactions; 3. Rites of renewal and remembrance; 4. Transcending the secular;5. Overlapping opposites: Schoenberg observed; 6. The subject of Britten; 7.Engagement or alienation?; 8. Rites of transformation; 9. Modernism,lyricism; 10. Experiment and orthodoxy; 11. Modernism in retreat?; Notes;Bibliography; Index.