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By Mervyn Cooke

ISBN-10: 0521780098

ISBN-13: 9780521780094

ISBN-10: 0521783933

ISBN-13: 9780521783934

This significant other celebrates the intense riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a set of especially commissioned essays written via a wonderful group of teachers, critics and practitioners. starting with a dialogue of the century's important inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the textual content embraces clean investigations into quite a few points of the style within the sleek age, with a entire insurance of the paintings of person composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. conventional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new severe views, and the special operatic traditions of Continental and jap Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the uk and usa are subjected to clean scrutiny. the quantity contains essays dedicated to avant-garde song theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a dialogue of the placement of the style in brand new cultural marketplace.

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