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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheppard, William Anthony, 1969-

Series:

California studies in 20th-century music ; 1.

California studies in 20th-century music ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music in the theater.

Music theater--History and criticism.

Music theater.

Music--Performance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-338) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92474-6

1-59734-868-6

OCLC:

475926782