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Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.
Music --- Music theater --- History and criticism. --- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, --- Dramatic music --- Mixed media (Music) --- Uilʹi︠a︡ms, Ralʹf Voan, --- Vaughan-William, R. --- Vaughan Williams, R. --- Vaughn Williams, Ralph, --- Voan Uilʹi︠a︡ms, R. --- Voan Uilʹi︠a︡ms, Ralʹf, --- Vōn-Wiriamuzu, Reifu, --- William, R. Vaughan --- -Williams, Ralph Vaughan, --- Williams, Vaughan, --- Wiriamuzu, Reifu Vōn-, --- Williams, Ralph Vaughan --- Williams, R. Vaughan --- 1900 - 1999 --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Edward Gordon Craig. --- English music-theatre. --- Englishness. --- May festival. --- Mummers' play. --- Purcell. --- Serge Diaghilev. --- Vaughan Williams. --- Wagnerism. --- early twentieth-century. --- musical practice. --- musical renaissance. --- pageant play. --- theatre artist.
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Igor' Stravinskijs Sacre du printemps gilt als Meilenstein der Musik- und Tanzgeschichte. Gleichwohl hat die Wissenschaft einen Schlüsselaspekt zum Verständnis des Werkes bislang übersehen: die ,Theaterreform um 1900'. Leila Zickgraf zeigt erstmals, dass Stravinskij mit dem Sacre sein höchst eigenes ,Theater der Zukunft' verwirklichte - gemeinsam mit dem Choreografen Vaclav Nižinskij und inspiriert von Georg Fuchs sowie Edward Gordon Craig. Durch die Rhythmen seiner Komposition versetzte er nämlich Tänzer wie Publikum in einen körperlich erfahrbaren Rausch, wodurch er die Zuschauer ins Bühnengeschehen integrierte. Die Ballets Russes nahmen damals - 1913 - eine mechanistische Ästhetik vorweg, die in Musik, Tanz und Theater merklich erst in den 1920er Jahren in Erscheinung treten sollte. Mit seiner interdisziplinären Ausrichtung zwischen Tanz-, Kultur-, Theater- und Musikwissenschaft sowie seiner umfassenden, auch russischsprachigen Quellenerschließung leistet das Buch einen wichtigen Forschungsbeitrag zu einem nicht wenig untersuchten, aber - wie sich zeigt - in zentralen Aspekten noch immer ungenügend ausgeleuchteten Meisterwerk.
Musicology. --- Music --- Musical research --- Research, Musical --- Popular music --- Research --- Historiography --- Choreografie --- Theater --- Ballett --- Tanz --- Marionette --- Hypnose --- Kontrolle --- Rausch --- Mechanik --- Alexandre Benois --- Edward Gordon Craig --- Georg Fuchs --- Primitivismus --- Ballets Russes --- Diaghilev --- Strawinsky --- Gesamtkunstwerk --- Pétrouchka --- The Rite of Spring --- Theatre Reform --- Dance --- Choreography --- Ballet --- Primitivism --- Stravinsky --- puppet --- Nijinsky --- mechanical --- Petrushka --- Theatre studies --- Stravinsky, Igor, --- Rite of spring (Choreographic work) --- Vesna svi︠a︡shchennai︠a︡ (Stravinsky, Igor) --- 1900-1999 --- Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich, --- Sacre du printemps (Stravinskiĭ, Igorʹ Fedorovich) --- Rite of spring (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Sacre du printemps (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Frühlingsweihe (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Sagra della primavera (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Pictures of pagan Russia (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Frühlingsopfer (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Pictures from pagan Russia (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Tableaux de la Russie païenne (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Vesna svyashchennaya (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Scenes of pagan Russia (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Sacred spring (Stravinsky, Igor) --- Sacre du printemps (Choreographic work) --- Sagra della primavera (Choreographic work) --- Vesna svi︠a︡shchennai︠a︡ (Choreographic work)
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