| "Hier berührt sich das Zeitkunstwerk mit dem Ewigkeitswerk". To what extent was the Zeitoper truly "of its time"? Contributor(s): McNulty, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 3656645493 ISBN-13: 9783656645498 Publisher: Grin Verlag OUR PRICE: $42.28 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Music | Reference |
| Physical Information: 0.11" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.15 lbs) 44 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject subject:: m10, grade: 1, King s College London, language: English, abstract: Recent scholarly discourse on the so-called Zeitopern of the Weimar Republic has tended to focus on the novelty of these works: their obsession with technology, the prevailing political climate or jazz idioms, for example. Indeed, very few academics have examined the operas' close links to music and opera of the past (especially Wagner, who apparently stands in direct opposition) and to contemporaneous, non-'Zeit-' music drama. To what extent, then, were these pieces 'of their time'? Investigating these issues, as well as the disparity between the works' ambition for mass appeal on the one hand and their swift departure from the repertoire (unprecedented for works of such initial popularity) on the other, the Zeitoper's apparently most fundamental defining quality - ephemerality - will be brought into question in an approach novel for its broader outlook and thoroughnes |