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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre - Music Since 1900 (Book)
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Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre - Music Since 1900 (Book)
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David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison
Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his
smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow
Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask
of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study with both music
analysis and cultural criticism, the book focuses on the sometimes
tense but always revealing relationship between abstract musical
processes and the practical demands of narrative drama, while
touching on theories of parody, narrative, pastoral, film, the body
and community. Each stage work is considered in terms of its own
specific musico-dramatic themes, revealing how compositional scheme
and dramatic conception are intertwined from the earliest stages of
a project's genesis. The study draws on a substantial body of
previously undocumented primary sources and goes beyond previous
studies of the composer's output to include works unveiled from
2000 onwards.
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