| Autore |
Salzman Eric
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
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| Descrizione fisica |
viii, 408 p. : ill., music
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| Disciplina |
810.9892
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
DezsyThomas <1967->
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| Soggetto topico |
Music theater - 20th century - History and criticism
Drama - 20th century - History and criticism
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| ISBN |
0-19-972321-4
1-281-86820-5
9786611868208
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What Is Music Theater? -- part i: Music in Music Theater -- Chapter 1: The Voice -- Chapter 2: Where the Sound Comes From -- entr'acte i: Is there such a thing as progress in opera or music theater? -- Chapter 3: The Music -- part ii: Theater in Music Theater -- Chapter 4: Cultural Narratives and Performance Institutions -- entr'acte ii: A woman's earring, a diamond necklace, a knee, a yogi in meditation, drawing, a mahout looking after an elephant: the language of Kathakali -- Chapter 5: Text -- Chapter 6: Visual Strategies -- Chapter 7: Space -- entr'acte iii: A theater of warm bodies? -- part iii: Putting It All Together: La Mise en Scène -- Chapter 8: The American Eccentrics -- Chapter 9: Music Theater as Musiktheater -- Chapter 10: From the Homeland: Teatro Musicale -- Chapter 11: Théâtre Musical -- Chapter 12: Music Theater in Northern Europe -- entr'acte iv: The art form that never happened -- Chapter 13: Downtown -- Chapter 14: Minimalism and Music Theater -- Chapter 15: The Show Must Go On -- Chapter 16: The Art of the In-Between -- Chapter 17: Extended Voice -- Chapter 18: New Media and Music Theater -- entr'acte v: . . . and how did you like it? -- part iv: After the Show: Taking It Apart -- Chapter 19: Toward a Theory of the New Music Theater -- Chapter 20: Notation versus Improvisation? -- Chapter 21: Popular or High Art? -- Chapter 22: Is Anyone Listening? -- Appendix I: A Quick Summary of the History of Music Theater -- Appendix II: Selected Reading -- Appendix III: Some Festivals and Performance Institutions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824773103321 |
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The new music theater [[electronic resource] ] : seeing the voice, hearing the body / / Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi
