Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater

(Part of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music Series)

by W. Anthony Sheppard

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W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. Sheppard is especially interested in the use of the "exotic" in techniques of masking and stylization, identifying Japanese Noh, medieval...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520223020

ISBN13:9780520223028

Release Date:February 2001

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:365 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Music Performing Arts

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Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater

(Part of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music Series)

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