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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817145303321

Autore

Sheppard William Anthony <1969->

Titolo

Revealing masks : exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater / / W. Anthony Sheppard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

0-520-92474-6

1-59734-868-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Collana

California studies in 20th-century music ; ; 1

Disciplina

782.1

Soggetti

Music - 20th century - History and criticism

Music in the theater

Music theater - History and criticism

Music - Performance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-338) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.