New Music Theatre in Europe
Title | New Music Theatre in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Adlington |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0429837372 |
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.
Contemporary Theatres in Europe
Title | Contemporary Theatres in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Kelleher |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2006-09-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134331142 |
With specific examples and case studies by specialist writers, academics and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays is the perfect introduction to contemporary theatre practices in Europe.
Invocations of Europe
Title | Invocations of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Sabina Cismas |
Publisher | Böhlau Verlag Wien |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2016-09-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 3205202163 |
The book examines the early history of music theatre in Romania in the nineteenth century and how it was instrumentalised as a vehicle for the overall modernization and Europeanization of the country. It deals with the complex interaction between the aristocrats, who imported the opera, the local public, the foreign power holders in the time of the Russian Protectorate and the opera companies and musicians who came to Romania and shaped the musical life of the country.
The New Music Theater
Title | The New Music Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Salzman |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Total Pages | 417 |
Release | 2008-11-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0195099362 |
"The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover a still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book, written for the reader who comes from the contemporary worlds of music, theater, film, literature, and visual arts, provides a wealth of examples and descriptions, not only of the works themselves but of the concepts, ideas and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world."--BOOK JACKET.
Next to Normal
Title | Next to Normal PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Yorkey |
Publisher | Theatre Communications Group |
Total Pages | 129 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1559366621 |
"A brave and breathtaking musical."--The New York Times
The New Singing Theatre
Title | The New Singing Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bawtree |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Music |
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The book attempts a first definition that brings under the heading "New Singing Theatre" all the disparate works loosely known as musical theatre, everything from Broadway musicals to complex chamber works by avant-garde composers, through voguish multimedia events to whittled-down traditional opera too embarrassed to call itself opera. The book also is a first blueprint for the new form which has so rapidly evolved from anticipatory works in the 1920s and 1930s to the flowering of new works and new ways in the years since World War II. Based on Bawtree's worldwide experience working in the U.S., Canada, England, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Cuba, The New Singing Theatre will be required reading for all those concerned with staging dramatic works with music--producers, directors, administrators, designers, and singing actors.
Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe
Title | Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred Brauneck |
Publisher | transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | 603 |
Release | 2017-03-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 383943243X |
Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene. This book brings together studies on the state of independent theatre in different European countries, focusing on the fields of dance and performance, children and youth theatre, theatre and migration and post-migrant theatre. Additionally, it includes essays on experimental musical theatre and different cultural policies for independent theatre scenes in a range of European countries.