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Revealing masks : exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater

Author: William Anthony Sheppard
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Series: California studies in 20th-century music, 1.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Anthony Sheppard
ISBN: 0520223020 9780520223028
OCLC Number: 44076157
Description: xv, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Defining music theater --
The multiplicity of the exotic --
Ritual and performance --
The masks of modernism --
Freedom in a tunic versus frieze-dried classicism: Hellenism in Modernist performance --
The uses of Noh --
Medievalism and the french modernist stage --
The Audience as congregation --
Britten's parables --
Later British mysteries --
Orientalists and a crusader --
Partch's vision of "integrated corporeal Theater" and "latter-day rituals" --
Bitter rituals for a lost nation: Partch and Bernstein --
God in popular Music(al) theater --
Masking the human and the Misogyny of masks --
Music Theater Now.
Series Title: California studies in 20th-century music, 1.
Responsibility: W. Anthony Sheppard.
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