New Music Theatre in Europe

Name: New Music Theatre in Europe | Transformations between 1955-1975
Brand: Routledge
Price: 56.49 EUR
Availability: OnlineOnly

Transformations between 1955-1975

Robert Adlington(Herausgeber*in)

Routledge (Verlag)

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 2. April 2019

348 Seiten

E-Book

PDF mit Adobe-DRM

Systemvoraussetzungen

978-0-429-83738-8 (ISBN)

56,49 €inkl. 7% MwSt.

Systemvoraussetzungen

für PDF mit Adobe-DRM

E-Book Einzellizenz

Als Download verfügbar

Beschreibung

Between 1955 and 1975 music theatre became a central preoccupation for European composers digesting the consequences of the revolutionary experiments in musical language that followed the end of the Second World War. The 'new music theatre' wrought multiple, significant transformations, serving as a crucible for the experimental rethinking of theatrical traditions, artistic genres, the conventions of performance, and the composer's relation to society. This volume brings together leading specialists from across Europe to offer a new appraisal of the genre. It is structured according to six themes that investigate: the relation of new music theatre to earlier and contemporaneous theories of drama; the use of new technologies; the relation of new music theatre to progressive politics; the role of new venues and environments; the advancement of new conceptions of the performer; and the challenges that new music theatre lays down for music analysis. Contributing authors address canonical works by composers such as Berio, Birtwistle, Henze, Kagel, Ligeti, Nono, and Zimmermann, but also expand the field to figures and artistic developments not regularly represented in existing music histories. Particular attention is given to new music theatre as a site of intense exchange - between practitioners of different art forms, across national borders, and with diverse mediating institutions.

Rezensionen / Stimmen

This excellent collection of insightful, rich, and sometimes genuinely provocative readings of a kaleidoscope of music theatrical practices from a diverse, but uniformly first-rate panel of scholars, consistently delivers fresh insights into not only what the music theatre of the post-war era meant then, but also how it might still speak today. - Martin Iddon, University of Leeds, UK

With a strong array of contributors, this collection reveals how conceptions of music theatre from the long 1960s challenged established conventions of music. The volume combines historical depth with insights on how trends in music theatre resonate with the current interest in music as a multi-media experience. - Alastair Williams, Keele University, UK

New Music Theatre in Europe

Beschreibung

Rezensionen / Stimmen

Weitere Details

Weitere Ausgaben

Person

Inhalt

Systemvoraussetzungen