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Autore: | Hinton Stephen |
Titolo: | Weill's musical theater : stages of reform / / Stephen Hinton |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 569 p.) |
Disciplina: | 782.1092 |
Soggetto topico: | Musical theater - History - 20th century |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Biographical Notes -- 2. The Busoni Connection -- 3. One-Act Operas -- 4. "Songspiel" -- 5. Plays with Music -- 6. Epic Opera -- 7. Didactic Theater ("Lehrstück") -- 8. Stages of Exile -- 9. Musical Plays -- 10. Stage vs. Screen -- 11. American Opera -- 12. Concept and Commitment -- Coda -- Appendix: Weill's Works for Stage or Screen -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Credits -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres-from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera-became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills"-one European, the other American-Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters of dramaturgy. Tracing his extraordinary journey as a composer, the book shows how Weill's artistic ambitions led to his working with a remarkably heterogeneous collection of authors, such as Georg Kaiser, Bertolt Brecht, Moss Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, and Maxwell Anderson. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Weill's musical theater |
ISBN: | 1-280-11632-3 |
9786613520760 | |
0-520-95183-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812785203321 |
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