The Grand Illusion: Opers; Its Form and Musico-Theatrical Conventions and Their Relationship with Examples from Three Faustion Operas
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Authors
House, Michael
Issue Date
1974
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Thesis
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en_US
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The central thrust of my study has been to understand
how music serves the theatrical event. In doing so I have
been able to expand my opinion of theatre. I have learned
to appreciate Theodore Shank's study The Art of Dramatic
Art, not as book of theatre, but as study of an aspect of
theatre arts. It has widened the span of theatre beyond a
snobbish literary art to a more definitive view of the
extents of theatre's influence and when an interpretation
no longer is just a theatrical art but becomes a dramatic
art, opera, dance, ballet, puppet play, movie, etc.
What appears in the report are the very basic elements
of opera, which conform the theatrical event.
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iii, 261 p.
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