Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater

by W. Anthony Sheppard

W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music theater. Sheppard is especially interested in the use of the "exotic" in techniques of masking and stylization, identifying Japanese Noh, medieval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520223020
• ISBN13: 9780520223028
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"