Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre
- Title
- Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre / David Beard.
- Published by
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 469 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Series statement
- Music since 1900
- Uniform title
- Music since 1900.
- Subject
- Contents
- The roots of Birtwistle's theatrical expression : from pantomime to Down by the Greenwood Side -- Punch and Judy : parody, allusion and the grotesque -- The Mask of Orpheus : 'lyrical formalism', time and narrative -- Yan Tan Tethera : pastoral labyrinths and the scene-agent ratio -- The shadow of opera : dramatic narrative and musical discourse in Gawain -- 'A face like music' : shaping images into sound in The Second Mrs Kong -- Corporeal music : Bow Down, The Io Passion and The Corridor 270 Artaud's 'true' theatre -- The Last Supper and The Minotaur : eyes 'half filled and half deserted'.
- Call number
- JMF 13-184
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references p. [440]-456) and index.
- Author
- Beard, David, 1971-
- Title
- Harrison Birtwistle's operas and music theatre / David Beard.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- Music since 1900
- Music since 1900.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references p. [440]-456) and index.
- LCCN
- 2012023152
- ISBN
- 9780521895347 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0521895340 (hardback : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JMF 13-184