UID:
almahu_9947414040602882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 118 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511620065 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge music handbooks
Content:
Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex is widely acknowledged as one of the most original music-theatre works of the twentieth century. This clear and concise guide is the first ever to be written on this work and it describes the music and its staging in close detail. It offers the first proper explanation of the plot and its relation to its literary sources and provides a fully documented discussion of the origins of Oedipus rex in Stravinsky's own work and thinking. By placing the work in its social context Stephen Walsh paints a vivid picture of Parisian artistic politics in the twenties from which emerges one of the richest and most suggestive works of art of modern times.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521404310
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620065
