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Autore: | Sheppard William Anthony <1969-> |
Titolo: | Revealing masks : exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater / / W. Anthony Sheppard |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
Disciplina: | 782.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Music - 20th century - History and criticism |
Music in the theater | |
Music theater - History and criticism | |
Music - Performance | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Revealing masks |
ISBN: | 0-520-92474-6 |
1-59734-868-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817145303321 |
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