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

• Autore: Sheppard William Anthony <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001
• 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.: 9910780081703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California studies in 20th-century music ; ; 1.