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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    21 July 2022
    04 August 2022
    ISBN:
    9781107279148
    9781107049758
    9781107628069
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107279148
    Dimensions:
    (247 x 174 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.56kg, 278 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.42kg, 278 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Opera, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Composers on the Stage
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Opera, Music: General Interest
    Series:
    Composers on the Stage
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    The Stage Works of Philip Glass is the first publication to exclusively examine Glass's stage works from 1976 to the present day. Glass, who is regularly acclaimed as the most popular living classical composer, created stage works that have had a mesmerizing effect on younger generations. Robert Waters analyses Glass and his music for the theatre in the context of other composers interested in so-called minimalist features. His discussion includes three introductory chapters that address the validity versus invalidity of terms such as minimalism, post-minimalism, postmodernism, and neo-Romanticism, together with a brief overview of Glass's life and works. Waters examines the different types of theatre responsible for Glass's impact, including Robert Wilson's Theater of Images. He sheds light on Glass's philosophy regarding staging, text, and other theatrical components, which includes a defiance of conventional narrative, visual and aural dissociation as a theatrical technique, and deconstructionist concepts.

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    ‘… reading the book is not only pertinent but necessary.’

    Jesús Rodríguez Lenin Source: Minimalismore

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