David Beard

Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain's foremost living composers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1014g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895347
• ISBN-10: 0521895340
• Artikelnr.: 35407744

Autorenporträt

David Beard is Senior Lecturer in Music at Cardiff University, where he is Director of the MA programme in Musicology. He has published widely on the music of Harrison Birtwistle in academic journals, including Music Analysis, the Cambridge Opera Journal and Twentieth-Century Music, and in notes for concerts and opera festivals. He has contributed to Peter Maxwell Davies Studies, Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage and Dichotonies: Gender and Music, and he is the co-author of Musicology: The Key Concepts.

Inhaltsangabe

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.