Revealing masks : exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater / W. Anthony Sheppard.
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TextSeries: California studies in 20th-century music ; 1.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 350 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520924741
- 0520924746
- 0585390223
- 9780585390222
- 9780520223028
- 0520223020
- 1597348686
- 9781597348683
- Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Music in the theater
- Music theater -- History and criticism
- Music -- Performance
- Musique au théâtre
- Théâtre musical contemporain -- Histoire et critique
- Musique -- Exécution
- MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera
- Music in the theater
- Music
- Music -- Performance
- Music theater
- 1900-1999
- 782.1 21
- ML197 .S552 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this exploration of ritualized performance in 20th-century music. 'Revealing Masks' uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theatre.
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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.
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