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Shadowtime

Author: Brian Ferneyhough; Charles Bernstein; Walter Benjamin
Publisher: London ; New York : Edition Peters, [2007?], ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Musical score : Operas : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Drama
Scores
Named Person: Walter Benjamin
Document Type: Musical Score
All Authors / Contributors: Brian Ferneyhough; Charles Bernstein; Walter Benjamin
OCLC Number: 166334201
Language Note: English words; also includes nonsense syllables (Scene 7)
Notes: Opera in 7 scenes, originally published separately.
Some scenes preceded by performance instuctions, performance history, and libretti.
Description: 1 score (432 p.) ; 30 cm.
Contents: Scene I. New angles/Transient failure (prologue) --
Scene II. Les froissements des ailes de Gabriel (first barrier) --
Scene III. The doctrine of similarity (13 canons) --
Scene IV. Opus contra naturam (Descent of Benjamin into the underworld) --
Scene V. Pools of darkness (11 interrogations) --
Scene VI. Seven tableaux vivants representing the Angel of history as Melancholia (second barrier) --
Scene VII. Stelæ for failed time (Solo for Melancholia as the Angel of history).
Responsibility: Brian Ferneyhough ; [libretto by Charles Bernstein].

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