“Dream Away the Time”. Metric Play in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Aidan McGartland PDF | CITATION | AUTHOR Abstract This article examines how meter serves as a key compositional device in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960), employed in strikingly idiosyncratic ways. Borrowing Leccia’s (2024) notion of “play” as an analytical metaphor, I explore Britten’s diverse metric types […]