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New Music Theatre in Europe: Transformations between 1955-1975 book cover

1st Edition

New Music Theatre in Europe Transformations between 1955-1975

Edited By Robert Adlington Copyright 2019
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction ROBERT ADLINGTON



PART I: Between the avant-gardes: new music theatre and new conceptions of drama



1. The definition of a new performance code between ‘avant-garde’ and ‘new’ theatre STEFANIA BRUNO



2. Total theatre and music theatre: tracing influences from pre- to post-war avant-gardes JULIA H. SCHRÖDER



3. Theatre as problem: modern drama and its influence in Ligeti, Pousseur and Berio VINCENZINA C. OTTOMANO



PART II: Expansions of technology



4. Audio-visual collisions: moving image technology and the Laterna Magika aesthetic in new music theatre HOLLY ROGERS



5. Composing new media: magnetic tape technology in new music theatre, c. 1950–1970 ANDREAS MÜNZMAY



PART III: The critique of established power



6. Guerrilla in the Polder: Music-Theatrical Protests in the Low Countries, 1968-1969 HARM LANGENKAMP



7. René Leibowitz’s Todos caerán: grand opéra as (critique of) new music theatreESTEBAN BUCH



PART IV: New venues and environments



8. A survey of new music theatre in Rome, 1961-1973: ‘anni favolosi’? ALESSANDRO MASTROPIETRO



9. Avant-garde music theatre: the Festival d’Avignon between 1967 and 1969 JEAN-FRANÇOIS TRUBERT



PART V: Reconceiving the performer



10. Reconceptualising the performer in new music theatre: collaborations with actors, mimes and musicians DAVID BEARD



11. Embodied commitments: solo performance and the making of new music theatre FRANCESCA PLACANICA



PART VI: Analyzing new music theatre



12. New music theatre and theories of embodied cognition BJÖRN HEILE



13. Analyzing new music theatre: theme and variations (in a multimedial perspective) ANGELA IDA DE BENEDICTIS

Biography



Robert Adlington holds the Queen’s Anniversary Prize Chair in Contemporary Music at the University of Huddersfield. He is author of books on Harrison Birtwistle, Louis Andriessen, and avant-garde music in 1960s Amsterdam, and editor of volumes on avant-garde music in the 1960s, and music and communism outside the communist bloc. He has written articles and chapters on Nono, Berio, musical modernism, new music theatre, and musical temporality.

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