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Revealing masks : exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater /
W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this exploration of ritualized performance in 20th-century music. 'Revealing Masks' uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theatr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | California studies in 20th-century music ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Defining Music Theater; 2 The Multiplicity of the Exotic; 3 Ritual and Performance; 4 The Masks of Modernism; 5 Freedom in a Tunic versus Frieze-Dried Classicism; 6 The Uses of Noh; 7 Medievalism and the French Modernist Stage; 8 The Audience as Congregation; 9 Britten's Parables; 10 Later British Mysteries; 11 Orientalists and a Crusader; 12 Partch's Vision of "Integrated Corporeal Theater" and "Latter-Day Rituals"; 13 Bitter Rituals for a Lost Nation: Partch and Bernstein; 14 God in Popular Music(al) Theater.