| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) |
| Series |
Musical cultures of the twentieth century |
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Musical cultures of the twentieth century.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures, tables, and music examples; Figures; Tables; Music examples; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: why 'new music theatre' now?; Why new music theatre now?; Overview of the volume; References; PART I: Between the avant-gardes: new music theatre and new conceptions of drama; Chapter 1: The definition of a new performance code: from the avant-garde to 'new theatre'; The rise of the avant-garde and the European scenario; The Italian case; Cultural alignment and new theatre |
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Open work and scenic writingNew theatre's tradition and permanency; References; Chapter 2: Total theatre and music theatre: tracing influences from pre- to post-war avant-gardes; Parameters and totality in experimental music theatre; Totalitarian aesthetics? Opera discourse and experimental music theatre; Hidden references: Zimmermann's opera as total theatre; Overwhelming: the immersion of the spectator-listener; Theatre music -- music as part of the total theatre?; Politically committed music theatre: using the total theatre space; Conclusion: no need to re-establish the term 'total theatre' |
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Chapter 5: Composing new media: magnetic tape technology in new music theatre, c. 1950-1970'Medialisierung': music theatre historiography and new media; Technology/media in theory and on stage; Tape in opera. Extending . . .; Appendix; References; PART III: The critique of established power; Chapter 6: Guerrilla in the polder: music-theatrical protests in the Low Countries, 1968-1969; Hyperion in Brussels: divergent visions of artistic engagement; Che in Amsterdam: the tactics of subsidised subversion; Conclusion; Appendix: Tentative reconstruction of Hyperion en het Geweld; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War. The 'new music theatre' wrought multiple, significant transformations, serving as a crucible for the experimental rethinking of theatrical traditions, artistic genres, the conventions of performance, and the composer's relation to society. This volume brings together leading specialists from across Europe to offer a new appraisal of the genre. It is structured according to six themes that investigate: the relation of new music theatre to earlier and contemporaneous theories of drama; the use of new technologies; the relation of new music theatre to progressive politics; the role of new venues and environments; the advancement of new conceptions of the performer; and the challenges that new music theatre lays down for music analysis. Contributing authors address canonical works by composers such as Berio, Birtwistle, Henze, Kagel, Ligeti, Nono, and Zimmermann, but also expand the field to figures and artistic developments not regularly represented in existing music histories. Particular attention is given to new music theatre as a site of intense exchange - between practitioners of different art forms, across national borders, and with diverse mediating institutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Robert Adlington holds the Queen's Anniversary Prize Chair in Contemporary Music at the University of Huddersfield. He is author of books on Harrison Birtwistle, Louis Andriessen, and avant-garde music in 1960s Amsterdam, and editor of volumes on avant-garde music in the 1960s, and music and communism outside the communist bloc. He has written articles and chapters on Nono, Berio, musical modernism, new music theatre, and musical temporality |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 22, 2019) |
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Music theater -- Europe -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Lyrics.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
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MUSIC -- General.
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Music theater
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adlington, Robert
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| LC no. |
2018052692 |
| ISBN |
9780429451669 |
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0429451660 |
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9780429837371 |
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0429837372 |
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9780429837364 |
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0429837364 |
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9780429837388 |
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0429837380 |
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