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1 online resource (538 pages) |
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Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies ; v. 6 |
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Ashgate library of essays in opera studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Preface; Introduction; PART I OPERAS BY VIENNESE COMPOSERS, CA. 1910-1935; 1 Expressive Principle and Orchestral Polyphony in Schoenberg's Erwartung; 2 Die Frauenfrage" in Erwartung: Schoenberg's Collaboration with Marie Pappenheim; 3 A Florentine Tragedy, or Woman as Mirror; 4 Schoenberg as Moses and Aron; 5 Berg's Propaganda Pieces: The "Platonic Idea" of Lulu; PART II OPERAS FROM OTHER EUROPEAN CONTEXTS; 6 The Verbunkos and Bartók's Modem Style: The Case of Duke Bluebeard's Castle |
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7 Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and the Impotence of Early Lateness8 Ariadne, Daphne and the Problem of Verwandlung; 9 The Concept of Epic Opera: Theoretical Anomalies in the Brecht-Weill Partnership; 10 French Identity in Flux: The Triumph of Honegger's Antigone; 11 Back to the Future: Shostakovich's Revision of Leskov's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District; PART III OPERAS BY BRITTEN AND BIRTWISTLE; 12 Peter Grimes: The Growth of the Libretto; 13 Twisted Relations": Method and Meaning in Britten's Billy Budd; 14 Why Does Miles Die? A Study of Britten's The Turn of the Screw |
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15 The Shadow of Opera: Dramatic Narrative and Musical Discourse in GawainPART IV OPERAS COMPOSED IN THE UNITED STATES; 16 Porgy and Bess, "An American Wozzeck -- 17 Kurt Weill, Modernism, and Popular Culture: Offentlichkeit als Sti; 18 The Best of All Possible Worlds: The Eldorado Episode in Leonard Bernstein's Candide; 19 The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception; 20 Instrumental Dramaturgy as Humane Comedy: What Next? by Elliott Carter and Paul Griffiths; Name Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Marvin, Professor Roberta Montemorra
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| ISBN |
9781351555791 |
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1351555790 |
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