Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre

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    • Beard, David

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Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre

David Beard

（Music since 1900）

Cambridge University Press, 2012

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references ([440]-456) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study with both music analysis and cultural criticism, the book focuses on the sometimes tense but always revealing relationship between abstract musical processes and the practical demands of narrative drama, while touching on theories of parody, narrative, pastoral, film, the body and community. Each stage work is considered in terms of its own specific musico-dramatic themes, revealing how compositional scheme and dramatic conception are intertwined from the earliest stages of a project's genesis. The study draws on a substantial body of previously undocumented primary sources and goes beyond previous studies of the composer's output to include works unveiled from 2000 onwards.

目次

  • 1. The roots of Birtwistle's theatrical expression: from Pantomime to Down by the Greenwood Side
  • 2. Punch and Judy: parody, allusion, and the grotesque
  • 3. The Mask of Orpheus: 'lyrical formalism', time and narrative
  • 4. Yan Tan Tethera: pastoral labyrinths and the scene-agent ratio
  • 5. The shadow of opera: dramatic narrative and musical discourse in Gawain
  • 6. 'A face like music': shaping images into sound in The Second Mrs Kong
  • 7. Corporeal music: Bow Down, The Io Passion and The Corridor
  • 8. The Last Supper and The Minotaur: eyes 'half filled and half deserted'
  • Bibliography.

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