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Weill´s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform
Stephen Hinton
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Description for Weill´s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform
Hardback. Presents the study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works. This title shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres - from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera - became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Num Pages: 592 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 2 tables, 78 music examples. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 234 x 41. Weight in Grams: 922.
In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres - from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera - became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills" - one European, the other American - Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters ... Read more
In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres - from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera - became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion of "two Weills" - one European, the other American - Hinton adopts a broad and inclusive perspective, establishing criteria that allow aspects of continuity to emerge, particularly in matters ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
592
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
921g
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271777
SKU
V9780520271777
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About Stephen Hinton
Stephen Hinton is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. His publications include Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera.
Reviews for Weill´s Musical Theater: Stages of Reform
"Eminently readable, with or without his music playing in the background. Professor Hinton is a fine writer who conveys what he knows and feels in terms insightful, intuitive and nuanced, yet accessible to those of us who are musically marginalized." Washington Ind Rev Of Bks "An in-depth view of the entire oeuvre of Weill's stage compositions... A scholarly and thoroughly ... Read more