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Alexander, Peter F. . "A Study of the Origins of Britten''s "Curlew River"." Music & Letters 69, no. 2 (April, 1988): 229-43.
Amis, John. "Putting You in the Pictures." In A Photographer at the Aldeburgh Festival, edited by Nigel Luckhurst. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: The Alastair Press, 1990.
Artaud, Antonin. The Theater and Its Double. New York: Grove Press, 1958.
Ashby, Arved. "Britten as Symphonist." In The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten, edited by Mervyn Cooke, 217-32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Baroway, Israel. "Studies in the Bible as Poetry in the English Renaissance." 1935.
Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, Chris Waters. Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945-1964. London: Rivers Oram Press, 1999.
Bekker, I. , ed. Aristoteles: Politica. Berlin, 1831-70.
Blount, Gilbert L. "Britten’s Curlew River: A Cultural Composite." In Literature East and West, 644. Austin, TX: Jenkins Pub. Co., 1971-1972.
Blyth, Alan, ed. Remembering [Benjamin] Britten. London: Hutchinson, 1981.
Boyce, M. A History of Zoroastrianism. 2 vols. Leiden1982.
———. A History of Zoroastrianism. 2 vols. Leiden1975, 1982.
BPF. "The Britten–Pears Foundation: History and Aims." http://www.brittenpears.org/?page=about/foundation/index.html.
Brett, Philip. Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes, Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
———, ed. Peter Grimes, Cambrige Opera Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
———. Queering the Pitch : The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Bridcut, John. Britten''s Children. London: Faber, 2006.
Briscoe, Marianne G., and John C. Coldewey. Contexts for Early English Drama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Britten, Benjamin. "Benjamin Britten on Receiving the First Aspen Award." edited by Aspen Institution. London: Faber Music Limited, 1978.
———. "Curlew River." In Programme Book, edited by Aldeburgh Festival. Aldeburgh, 1964.
———. "On Receiving the Freedom of the Borough of Aldeburgh." In New Aldeburgh Anthology, edited by Ariane Bankes and Jonathan Reekie, 76-77. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2009.
———. "Statement to the Local Tribunal for the Registration of Conscientious Objectors ". Aldeburgh: BPL, 4 May 1942.
Calinescu, Matei "Imagination and Meaning: Aesthetic Attitudes and Ideas in Mircea Eliade''s Thought." The Journal of Religion 57, no. 1 (Jan., 1977): 1-15.
Carpenter, Humphrey. Benjamin Britten : A Biography. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.
Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth. New York [u.a.]: Harper, 1946.
Ceadel, Martin Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945: The Defining Ofa Faith. Oxford: OUP, 1980.
Cernat, Paul "The Tamer of Socialist Romania. From Birca to Chicago and Back " Polirom (Iaşi, 2004).
Clark, Nick, Chris Grogan and Lucy Walker. "Benjamin Britten: A Suffolk Composer." edited by BPF. Aldeburgh: BPF, 2009.
Collins, Fletcher. The Production of Medieval Church Music-Drama. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia1972.
Collinson, Patrick. The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1967.
Cooke, Mervyn. "Britten and Bali " Journal of Musicological Research 7, no. 4 (1988): 307-39.
———. Britten and the Far East: Asian Influences in the Music of Benjamin Britten. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001.
———. "Britten and the Sho" The Musical Times 129, no. 1743 (1988): 231-33.
———. Britten: War Requiem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
———. The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten. Cambridge [u.a.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.
———. "Distant Horizons: From Pagodaland to the Church Parables." In The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten, edited by Mervyn Cooke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Cox, Harvey. "Review of Mircea Eliade, Gods, Goddesses, and Myth of Creation, . . . : A Thematic Source Book of the History of Religions." New York Times Book Review (August 11 , 1974).
Crozier, Eric & Nancy Evans. "After Long Pursuit - Eric''s Story Continues: Fifty Years of Peter Grimes " The Opera Quarterly 10:4, (Summer, 1994/6): 7-20.
Danby, Herbert. The Mishnah. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Daniélou, Alain. The Raga-S of Northern Indian Music. London: The Cresset Press, Barrie and Rockliff, 1968.
Davies, Horton. Worship and Theology in England from Andrewes to Baxter and Fox, 1603-1690 Princeton1975.
Dawney, Michael "Some Notes on Britten''s Church Music." Tempo (Autumn, 1967): 13-21.
Deimling, Hermann. The Chester Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Dupre, Louis. "Ritual: The Divine Play of Time." In Play, Literature, Religion: Essays in Cultural Intertextuality edited by Virgil Nemoianu & Robert Royal. NY: State University of New York Press 1986.
Eliade, Mircea. Autobiography. Edited by M. L. Ricketts. Vol. II, 1937-1960 , Exile’s Odyssey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
———. Fragments D''un Journal. Translated by Luc Badesco. Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
———. Images and Symbols. Translated by Philip Mairet. London: Harvill Press, 1961.
———. The Myth of the Eternal Return, or Cosmos and History. Translated by Willard R. Trask. Princeton Princeton University Press, 1954.
———. Myths, Dreams and Mysteries. Translated by Philip Mairet. NY: Harper & Row, 1967.
———. Patterns in Comparative Religion. NY: Sheed & Ward, 1958.
———. Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts. NY: Crossroad 1985.
———. The Two and the One. Translated by J. M. Cohen. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
———. The Sacred and the Profane. Translated by 楊素娥. NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1961.
———. Yoga, Immortality and Freedom. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1973.
Eliade, Mircea, and L. E. Sullivan, eds. Encyclopedia of Religion, Hierophany. NY: Macmillan, 1987.
Eliade, Mircea, Willard Trask, and Wendy Doniger. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Bollingen. Princeton: Princeton University Press (NJ) Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 2004.
Elliott, Graham. Benjamin Britten : The Spiritual Dimension. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.
———. "The Operas of Benjamin Britten a Spiritual View." The Opera Quarterly 4, (1986): 28-44.
Esty, Jed. A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England. Princeton2004.
Evans, John, ed. Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 2009.
Evans, Peter. "Britten''s Fourth Creative Decade." Tempo 106, (1973): 8-17.
———. The Music of Benjamin Britten. 2 ed. London: Dent, 1989.
Gishford, Anthony. Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Brithday. London: Faber and Faber, 1963.
Goffman, Erving. Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1974.
Gordon, Lyndall. Eliot''s Early Years. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Graham, Colin. The Prodigal Son : Third Parable for Church Performance : Op.81, Full Score, Production Notes [Music by] Benjamin Britten London: Faber Music, 1986.
———. "Production Notes." In Benjamin Britten: Curlew River, Op. 71. Full Score. London: Faber Music, 1983.
———. "Staging First Productions." In The Operas of Benjamin Britten, edited by David Herbert, 44-58. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965.
Greenfield, Edward "Review of First Performance of the Burning Fiery Furnace." Guardian, 10 June, 1966.
Griffiths, Paul. "A Mind Withdrawing." The Times Literary Supplement (28 June, 1991).
Grotowski, Jerzy. Towards a Poor Theatre. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
Halsey, Louis. "Britten''s Church Music." The Musical Times 103, no. 1436 (Oct., 1962): 686-89.
———. "Britten''s Church Music." The Musical Times 103, no. 1436 (1962): 686-89.
Happé, Peter ed. English Mystery Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
Harich-Schneider, Eta. A History of Japanese Music. Oxford: OUP, 1973.
Harper, John. The Forms and Orders of Western Liturgy from the Tenth to the Eighteenth Century : A Historical Introduction and Guide for Students and Musicians. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1991.
Harris, Dale. "In That Dawn the Birth of Peter Grimes." Opera News 60, no. 1 (July, 1995): 18-21.Headington, Christopher. Britten, (the Composer as Contemporary. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.
Herbert, David. The Operas of Benjamin Britten : The Complete Librettos : Illustrated with Designs of the First Productions. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Hobsbawm, Eric and Ranger, ed. The Invention of Tradition. London: CUP, 1983.
Holloway, Robin. "Benjamin Britten: Tributes and Memories." Tempo 120, (1977): 5-6.
Holst, Imogen. Britten. 3rd ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1980.
Hughes, Robert Stradling & Meirion. The English Musical Renaissance 1860-1940 1993.
Ishii, Mikiko. "The Weeping Mothers in Sumidagawa, Curlew River, and Medieval European." Comparative Drama 39, no. 3/4 (Fall 2005/Wint 2006): 287-305.
Japanese Classics Tanslation Committee. Japanese Noh Drama. Tokyo: Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai, 1955.
Johnson, Graham. Britten, Voice & Piano : Lectures on the Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten. Aldershot [u.a.: Ashgate [u.a.], 2003.
Julian, John. A Dictionary of Hymnology : Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. New York: Gordon Press, 1979.
Keene, Donald. No: The Classical Theatre of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1966.
Keller, Hans Heinrich, and Donald Mitchell. Benjamin Britten, a Commentary on His Works from a Group of Specialists1953.
Kennedy, Michael. Britten, The Master Musicians Series. 2 ed. London: Dent, 1993.
Kennedy, Michael ed. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Kildea, Paul. "Benjamin Britten: Inventing English Expressionism?" University Of Toronto Quarterly 74, no. 2, no. spring (2005): 657-70.
———. Britten on Music. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
———. Selling Britten : Music and the Market Place. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Koestenbaum, Wayne. The Queen''s Throat : Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. New York: Poseidon Press, 1993.
Komparu, Kunio. The Noh Theater: Principles and Perspectives. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1983.
Langer, Susanne K. Feeling and Form : A Theory of Art Developed from Philosophy in a New Key. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
Lewis, Anthony. "Gloriana." Times, 16 June 1953.
Light, Alison. Forever England : Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars. London: Routledge, 1991.
Linnemann, Eta. Jesus of the Parables Introduction and Exposition. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Ludwig, Prince Of Hess. "Ausflug Ost, 1956." In A Tribute to Benjamin Britten, edited by Gishford, 56-66. Darmstadt: privately printed, 1956.
Mäkelä, Tomi ed. Music and Nationalism in 20th-Century Great Britain and Finland. Hamburg: Von Bockel, 1997.
Malm, William P. Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music, [the Ernest Bloch Lectures. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Mann, William. "East Meets West in New Britten Music Drama." Times, 15 June, 1964, 6.
Markham, Violet. "The New Elizabethan Age." The Listener, 28 May 1953.
Mason, Colin. "Benjamin Britten." The Musical Times (March, 1948): 73-75.
Matthews, David. Britten. London: Haus, 2003.
McPhee, Colin. A House in Bali. Singapore; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Mellers, Wilfrid. Celestial Music? Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002.
———. "Music for 20th-Century Children. 2: From Magic to Drama." The Musical Times 105, no. 1456 (1964): 421-27.
Miner, Earl. In The Japanese Tradition in British and American Literature, XI-XII. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.
Mitchell, Donald, ed. Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice, Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
———. Britten and Auden in the Thirties : The Year 1936 : The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures Delivered at the University of Kent at Canterbury in November 1979. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000.
———. "What Do We Know About Britten Now?" In The Britten Companion, edited by Christopher Palmer, 40. London: Faber & Faber, 1984.
Mitchell, Donald, and John Evans. Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 : Pictures from a Life. London: Faber and Faber, 1978.
Mitchell, Donald, and Philip Reed. Letters from a Life : The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1952 - 1957, Vol. 4. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008.
Mitchell, Donald, and Philip eds. Reed. Letters from a Life : The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976. Vol.1, 1923-1939. Vol.2, 1939-1945. London: Faber, 1991.Mordden, Ethan. Opera in the Twentieth Century : Sacred, Profane, Godot. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
———. "Sacred, Profane, Godot." In Opera in the Twentieth Century. NY: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Nettl, Bruno. Music in Primitive Culture. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1977.
Ortolani, Benito. The Japanese Theatre: From Shamanistic Ritual to Contemporary Pluralism revised ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Otto, R., & Harvey, J. W. The Idea of the Holy : An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1980.
Palmer, Christopher. The Britten Companion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cambridge, England, 1984.
———. "The Colour of the Music " In Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw edited by Patricia Howard, 101-25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Plomer, William. The Autobiography of William Plomer. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.
———. "Cover Note." In The Libretto of the Burning Fiery Furnace London: Faber and Faber, 1966.
———. Curlew River: A Parable for Church Performance, Set to Music by Benjamin Britten, Op. 71 London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
Pollard, Alfred W. , ed. English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama 8th ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.
Potter, Robert. The English Morality Play: Origins, History and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975.
Pound, Ezra. The Translations of Ezra Pound. London: Faber and Faber, 1953.
Pound, Ezra and Ernest Fenollosa. Noh or Accomplishment, a Study of the Classical Stage of Japan London: Macmillan, 1917.
Rappaport, Roy. "The Obvious Aspects of Ritual." In Ecology, Meaning, and Religion, 179-83. Richmond: Morth Atlantic Books, 1979.
Reed, Philip, and Library Britten-Pears. On Mahler and Britten : Essays in Honour of Donald Mitchell. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1998.
Reed, Philip ed. The Travel Diaries of Peter Pears, 1936-1978. Woodbridge: Boydell Press 1999.
Reekie, Jonathan and Ariane Bankes, ed. New Aldeburgh Anthology. Edited by Ariane Bankes and Jonathan Reekie. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2009.
Rouget, Gilbert. Music and Trance, a Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Rowse, A. L. An Elizabethan Garland. New York: St. Martin''s Press, 1953.
Rupprecht, Philip. Britten''s Musical Language, Music in the 20th Century, 17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
———. "Rituals: The War Requiem and Curlew River." In Britten''s Musical Language, 187-88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan Press, 1986.
Samuel, Raphael. Patriotism : The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity. 2vols. Vol. 1. London: Routledge, 1989.Schneemelcher, Wilhelm, and R. McL Wilson. New Testament Apocrypha. Cambridge: Westminster, 2003.
Scott, Bernard Brandon Hear Then the Parable, a Commentary on the Parables of Jesus Minneapolis Fortress Press 1993.
Seymour, Claire Karen. "The Operas of Benjamin Britten : Expression and Evasion." Boydell Press, 2007.
Sheppard, William Anthony. Revealing Masks : Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Shiba, Sukehiro. Gosenfu Ni Yoru Gagaku Sofu. Tokyo: Kawai Gakufu, 1968.
Shigeo, Kishibe. The Traditional Music of Japan. Tokyo: Ongaku No Tomo Sha Ed, 1984.
Shils, Edward. Tradition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Sieck, Stephen. "Benjamin Britten Early 20 Years, Reconciling the Public and the Private Narratives." Choral Journal (June/July, 2008): 8-17.
Snodgrass, K. R. . "Parable." In Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospel, edited by Joel B. & Scot McKnight Green, 591-601. Leicester: Inter Varsity Press, 1992.
Solesmes, Abbaye Saint-Pierre de. Liber Hymnarius : Cum Invitatoriis & Aliquibus Responsoriis. Solesmis1983.
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Tadi, Jean-Yves. Marcel Proust. London: Penguin, 2001.
Tamba, Akira, and Patricia Mator. The Musical Structure of No. Tokyo: Tokai University Press1981.
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Twycross, Meg, and Sarah Carpenter. "Masks in Medieval English Theatre: The Mystery Plays " Medieval English Theatre 3, no. 1 (1981): 7-51.Van der Leeuw, Gerardus Religion in Essence and Manifestation. Translated by J. E. Turner. 2 vols. NY: The World Publishing Company, 1963.
Walker, Lucy ed. Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on His Life and Work. Edited by Christopher Grogan. 8 vols, Aldeburgh Studies in Music. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2009.
———. "“How a Child''s Mind Works”: Assessing the “Value” of Britten''s Juvenilia." Notes (June, 2008): 641-58.
Waters, Chris. " ‘‘Dark Strangers’’ in Our Midst: Discourses of Race and Nation in Britain, 1947–1963." Journal of British Studies no. 36 (1997).
Watson, J. R. . The English Hymn, a Critical and Historical Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
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Whittall, Arnold. The Music of Britten and Tippett : Studies in Themes and Techniques. Cambridge u.a: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.
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陳威仰. "從依利亞德的理論探究布列頓歌劇《彼得葛萊姆》第二幕第一景的聖俗二元性." 藝術評論 18期, (2008): 96.薩依德. 東方主義. Translated by 立緒文化. 台北: 立緒文化事業, 1999.
有聲資料
Britten, Benjamin. Curlew River. London: Koch International Gmbh & Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1995. (no serial number)
Britten, Benjamin. The Burning Fiery Furnace. London: Decca, 1967. (414663-2)
Britten, Benjamin. The Prodigal Son. London: Decca, 1969. (425713-2)
總譜
Britten, Benjamin. Curlew River, a Parable for Church Performace. London: Faber Music Limited, 1983.
Britten, Benjamin. The Burning Fiery Furnace, Second Parable for Church Performace. London: Faber Music Limited, 1966.
Britten, Benjamin. The Prodigal Son, Third Parable for Church Performance. London: Faber Music Limited, 1968.
聖詩集
The English Hymnal. rev. ed. London, 1933.
聖經
Holy Bible, King James Version/ Chinese Union Version. 香港，聯合聖經公會，1992