Format:
1 online resource (xxix, 507 pages)
ISBN:
9781315090337
,
9781351555777
Series Statement:
Ashgate library of essays in opera studies
Content:
part PART I OPERAS BY VIENNESE COMPOSERS, CA. 1910–1935 -- chapter 1 Expressive Principle and Orchestral Polyphony in Schoenberg’s Erwartung -- chapter 2 Die Frauenfrage” in Erwartung: Schoenberg’s Collaboration with Marie Pappenheim -- chapter 3 A Florentine Tragedy, or Woman as Mirror -- chapter 4 Schoenberg as Moses and Aron -- chapter 5 Berg’s Propaganda Pieces: The “Platonic Idea” of Lulu -- part PART II OPERAS FROM OTHER EUROPEAN CONTEXTS -- chapter 6 The Verbunkos and Bartók’s Modem Style: The Case of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle -- chapter 7 Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina and the Impotence of Early Lateness -- chapter 8 Ariadne, Daphne and the Problem of Verwandlung -- chapter 9 The Concept of Epic Opera: Theoretical Anomalies in the Brecht-Weill Partnership -- chapter 10 French Identity in Flux: The Triumph of Honegger’s Antigone -- chapter 11 Back to the Future: Shostakovich’s Revision of Leskov’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District -- part PART III OPERAS BY BRITTEN AND BIRTWISTLE -- chapter 12 Peter Grimes: The Growth of the Libretto -- chapter 13 Twisted Relations”: Method and Meaning in Britten’s Billy Budd -- chapter 14 Why Does Miles Die? A Study of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw -- chapter 15 The Shadow of Opera: Dramatic Narrative and Musical Discourse in Gawain -- part PART IV OPERAS COMPOSED IN THE UNITED STATES -- chapter 16 Porgy and Bess, “An American Wozzeck -- chapter 17 Kurt Weill, Modernism, and Popular Culture: Offentlichkeit als Sti -- chapter 18 The Best of All Possible Worlds: The Eldorado Episode in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide -- chapter 19 The Great American Opera: Klinghoffer, Streetcar, and the Exception -- chapter 20 Instrumental Dramaturgy as Humane Comedy: What Next? by Elliott Carter and Paul Griffiths.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780754628989
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780754628989
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315090337
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