Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater
University of California Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, fresh copy in fine, crisp dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xv+350 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrations. A consideration of a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works of ritualized performance in 20th century music. The author is especially interested in the use of the "exotic" in techniques of masking and stylization , identifying Japanese Noh, medieval Christian drama, and ancient Greek theater as the most prominent exotic models for the creation of modern "total theater". The work draws on an extraordinarily diverse---and in some instances little known---range fo music and theater pieces, citing the works of Stravinsky, Britten, Hogegger, Davies, Bernstein, Lloyd Weber, and Madonna; also cited are artists in literature, dance, and theater such as Yeats, Claudel, Brecht, Isadora Duncan, Ida Rubinstein, and Edward Gordon Craig. Fine / fine. Item #E33417
ISBN: 0520223020
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