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Sheppard William Anthony <1969-> |
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Titolo |
Revealing masks [[electronic resource] ] : exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater / / W. Anthony Sheppard |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-92474-6 |
1-59734-868-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Collana |
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California studies in 20th-century music ; ; 1 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Music - 20th century - History and criticism |
Music in the theater |
Music theater - History and criticism |
Music - Performance |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-338) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
15 Masking the Human and the Misogyny of Masks16 Music Theater Now; Appendices; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. |
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