Weill's musical theater [[electronic resource] ] : stages of reform / / Stephen Hinton
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Hinton Stephen
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| Titolo: |
Weill's musical theater [[electronic resource] ] : stages of reform / / Stephen Hinton
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 569 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 782.1092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Musical theater - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 20th century composers |
| 20th century music | |
| 20th century musical theater | |
| 20th century opera | |
| american entertainment | |
| american music | |
| american musical theater | |
| broadway musicals | |
| european history | |
| european musicals | |
| european opera | |
| european theater | |
| famous composers | |
| german composer | |
| historic composers | |
| history of broadway | |
| history of opera | |
| history of theater | |
| music and theater | |
| music studies | |
| musical composers | |
| musical fans | |
| musical lovers | |
| musicological study | |
| performing arts history | |
| theatre biographies | |
| 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.: | 9910779087803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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