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The Curios Carnival

Margaret Leng Tan’s Theatrimusicality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

Marcus Cheng Chye Tan
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Theatricality in music performances is often regarded as extraneous, but avantgarde toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan exploits the intermediality between theatricality and musicality to demonstrate how theatrimusicality is imperative to the creation and reception of her music. Curios (2015) is one example in which the work’s structure of meaning and the experience of the carnivalesque are evoked through such a theatrimusical dramaturgy.

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TDR , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , September 2022 , pp. 52 - 63
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© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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