附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Defining Music Theater; 2 The Multiplicity of the Exotic; 3 Ritual and Performance; 4 The Masks of Modernism; 5 Freedom in a Tunic versus Frieze-Dried Classicism; 6 The Uses of Noh; 7 Medievalism and the French Modernist Stage; 8 The Audience as Congregation; 9 Britten's Parables; 10 Later British Mysteries; 11 Orientalists and a Crusader; 12 Partch's Vision of "Integrated Corporeal Theater" and "Latter-Day Rituals"; 13 Bitter Rituals for a Lost Nation: Partch and Bernstein; 14 God in Popular Music(al) Theater.
摘要:W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this exploration of ritualized performance in 20th-century music. 'Revealing Masks' uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theatre.
