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Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater
W. Anthony Sheppard
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Hardback. Explores ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. This book uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 365 pages, 15 b/w photographs, 20 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 32. Weight in Grams: 744.
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. Sheppard is especially interested in the use of the 'exotic' in techniques of masking and stylization, identifying Japanese Noh, medieval Christian drama, and ancient Greek theater as the most prominent exotic models for the creation of 'total theater.' Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse - and in some instances, little-known - range of music theater pieces, Sheppard cites the work of ... Read more
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. Sheppard is especially interested in the use of the 'exotic' in techniques of masking and stylization, identifying Japanese Noh, medieval Christian drama, and ancient Greek theater as the most prominent exotic models for the creation of 'total theater.' Drawing on an extraordinarily diverse - and in some instances, little-known - range of music theater pieces, Sheppard cites the work of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Number of Pages
365
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520223028
SKU
V9780520223028
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About W. Anthony Sheppard
W. Anthony Sheppard is Assistant Professor of Music at Williams College.
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