New Music Theatre In Europe

Author : Robert Adlington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429837371

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New Music Theatre in Europe by Robert Adlington Pdf

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.

Author : Manfred Brauneck,ITI Zentrum Deutschland
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783839432433

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Independent Theatre in Contemporary Europe by Manfred Brauneck,ITI Zentrum Deutschland Pdf

Over the past 20 years European theatre underwent fundamental changes in terms of aesthetic focus, institutional structure and in its position in society. The impetus for these changes was provided by a new generation in the independent theatre scene. This book brings together studies on the state of independent theatre in different European countries, focusing on the fields of dance and performance, children and youth theatre, theatre and migration and post-migrant theatre. Additionally, it includes essays on experimental musical theatre and different cultural policies for independent theatre scenes in a range of European countries.

Author : Joe Kelleher,Nicholas Ridout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134331147

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Contemporary Theatres in Europe by Joe Kelleher,Nicholas Ridout Pdf

Through specific examples, case studies and essays, this collection of essays looks at theatre practices across Europe. From "Theatre du Soleil" to "SocA-etas Raffaello Sanzio", it reconsiders the possibilities of theatre practice, its relation to history and location, and its place in Europe at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Author : Michela Niccolai,Clair Rowden
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Musical theater
ISBN : 2503577660

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Musical Theatre in Europe 1830-1945 by Michela Niccolai,Clair Rowden Pdf

From the mid-1800s in Europe there was a vigorous and enthusiastic expansion of diverse forms of musical theatre. The cabarets, music-halls and private theatres rubbed shoulders with the subsidised and official theatres that offered more established types of spectacle, creating a milieu which welcomed a number of new musical and theatrical genres which fed from and into one another. In the midst of this creative dynamism, alongside revues and café-concert spectacles, operetta and its derivative forms took centre stage. Divided into six sections, the volume covers the revue de fin d'année as a theatrical genre which also influenced all other lighter genres in France during its heyday ; dance music in Offenbach's operettas and his musical recreation of the Parisian soundscape ; transformation of the opera repertoire in operetta and revue parodies ; Viennese and English operetta and musical comedy from the end of the 'reign' of Gilbert and Sullivan until the outbreak of World War II ; diverse theatrical practices from Parisian puppet theatre and the posters of musical spectacles in the café conchantant, to contemporary Italian operetta before the rise of Fascism, and its dissemination, via the impresario Vittorio Rosi, in Japan.

Author : Sabina Cismas
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783205202165

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Invocations of Europe by Sabina Cismas Pdf

The book examines the early history of music theatre in Romania in the nineteenth century and how it was instrumentalised as a vehicle for the overall modernization and Europeanization of the country. It deals with the complex interaction between the aristocrats, who imported the opera, the local public, the foreign power holders in the time of the Russian Protectorate and the opera companies and musicians who came to Romania and shaped the musical life of the country.

Author : Peter Nagy,Philippe Rouyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136118128

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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre by Peter Nagy,Philippe Rouyer Pdf

The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre:Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided into twelve sections - History, Structure of the National Theatre Community, Artistic Profile, Music Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Puppet Theatre, Design, Theatre, Space and Architecture, Training, Criticism, Scholarship and Publishing and Further Reading - allowing the reader to use the book as a source for both area and subject studies.

Author : Joe Kelleher,Nicholas Ridout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134331130

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Contemporary Theatres in Europe by Joe Kelleher,Nicholas Ridout Pdf

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. From Théatre du Soleil to Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, the authors reconsider the possibilities of theatre practice, its relation to history and location and its place in Europe at the turn of the twenty-first century. Contemporary Theatres in Europe examines a wide range of topics including: mainstream European theatre experimental performance music theatre theatre for children dance theatre. Tailor-made for students, offering clear examples of different ways of thinking and writing about performance, this is a richly detailed introduction which brings key themes to life for all students of European theatre.

Author : Brian Yorkey,Tom Kitt
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559366625

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Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey,Tom Kitt Pdf

"A brave and breathtaking musical."--The New York Times

Author : Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi,Austrian Composer Director and Writer Thomas Desi
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195099362

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The New Music Theater by Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi,Austrian Composer Director and Writer Thomas Desi Pdf

"The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover a still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book, written for the reader who comes from the contemporary worlds of music, theater, film, literature, and visual arts, provides a wealth of examples and descriptions, not only of the works themselves but of the concepts, ideas and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Matthias Rebstock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3837652262

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Freies Musiktheater in Europa / Independent Music Theatre in Europe by Matthias Rebstock Pdf

Author : Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000913644

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance by Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters, this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations, the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance, and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge, this is a collection of carefully curated, interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.

Author : Jelena Novak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317077206

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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body by Jelena Novak Pdf

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer (Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson), and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms 'postoperas'. These pieces are sites for creative exploration, where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to this is the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships. Novak dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, and strategies. That dissection shows how the singing body acts within the world of opera, what interventions it makes, and how it constitutes opera’s meanings.

Author : Holly Rogers,Joana Freitas,João Francisco Porfírio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501387289

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YouTube and Music by Holly Rogers,Joana Freitas,João Francisco Porfírio Pdf

YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube's potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive composition, refresh music pedagogy, perform fandom, influence musical tourism and soundtrack our everyday lives. Speaking from a variety of perspectives, musicologists, film scholars, philosophers, new media theorists, cultural geographers and psychologists use case studies to situate YouTube as a vital component of contemporary musical culture. This book works together with its companion text Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : Nathan Hurwitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317912040

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A History of the American Musical Theatre by Nathan Hurwitz Pdf

From the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the ‘20s, the ‘true musicals’ of the ‘40s, the politicisation of the ‘60s and the ‘mega-musicals’ of the ‘80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors. Nathan Hurwitz uses these factors to explain the output of each decade in turn, showing how the most popular productions spoke directly to the audiences of the time. He explores the function of musical theatre as commerce, tying each big success to the social and economic realities in which it flourished. This study spans from the earliest spectacles and minstrel shows to contemporary musicals such as Avenue Q and Spiderman. It traces the trends of this most commercial of art forms from the perspective of its audiences, explaining how staying in touch with writers and producers strove to stay in touch with these changing moods. Each chapter deals with a specific decade, introducing the main players, the key productions and the major developments in musical theatre during that period.

Author : Tatiana Chernigovskaya,Polina Eismont,Tatiana Petrova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811637421

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Language, Music and Gesture: Informational Crossroads by Tatiana Chernigovskaya,Polina Eismont,Tatiana Petrova Pdf

This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction. Among the number of multidisciplinary and comparative studies of the structure and organization of language and music, the presented book broadens the scope with the inclusion of gesture problems in the analyzed spectrum. A unique feature of the presented collection is that the papers, compiled in one volume, allow readers to see similarities and differences in gesture as an element of non-verbal communication and gesture as the main element of dance. In addition to enhancing the analysis, the data on the perception and comprehension of speech, music, and dance in regard to both their functioning in a natural situation and their reflection in various forms of performing arts makes this collection extremely useful for those who are interested in human cognitive abilities and performing skills. The book begins with a philosophical overview of recent neurophysiological studies reflecting the complexity of higher cognitive functions, which references the idea of the baroque style in art being neither linear nor stable. The following papers are allocated into 5 sections. The papers of the section “Language-Music-Gesture As Semiotic Systems” discuss the issues of symbolic and semiotic aspects of language, music, and gesture, including from the perspective of their notation. This is followed by the issues of "Language-Music-Gesture Onstage" and interaction within the idea of the "World as a Text." The papers of “Teaching Language and Music” present new teaching methods that take into account the interaction of all the cognitive systems examined. The papers of the last two sections focus on issues related primarily to language: The section "Verbalization Of Music And Gesture" considers the problem of describing musical text and non-verbal behavior with language, and papers in the final section "Emotions In Linguistics And Ai-Communication Systems” analyze the ways of expressing emotions in speech and the problems of organizing emotional communication with computer agents.