New Music Theatre in Europe - Transformations between 1955-1975 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2019
Editors:	Robert Adlington
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-73094-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Performance art Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
LSN:	0-367-73094-4
Barcode:	9780367730949

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