Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Great lives from history.

Table of Contents: “…Nathan Soderblom -- Simone Weil -- v. 10. Kurt Weill -- Vladimir Zworykin ; Indexes.…”
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1930 : Europe in the shadow of the beast / by Haberman, Arthur, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Prologue: Europeans, 1930; 1 Thomas Mann: The Uncanny and Its Power; 2 Virginia Woolf: Transcending; 3 José Ortega y Gasset: Rethinking the West; 4 Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill: Rethinking Theatre, Remaking Opera; 5 L'âme noir: The Black Soul in the City of Light; 6 L.H.O.O.Q.: Painting in 1930; 7 Aldous Huxley: Fearing the Future; 8 Sigmund Freud: The Fragility of Civilization; 9 Yesterday and Today; Epilogue: Europeans Today; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliographical Notes; Additional Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F…”
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A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht / by Unwin, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 THE DARK TIMES; 2 BRECHT: PLAYWRIGHT, POET AND ARTIST; 3 POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND A NEW MORALITY; 4 ART AND CULTURE; 5 TOWARDS A MARXIST THEATRE; 6 KEY CONCEPTS OF BRECHA'S THEATRICAL THEORY; 7 STAGING BRECHT; 8 FOUR EARLY PLAYS; Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of the Cities; Man equals Man; 9 TWO MUSIC-THEATRE PIECES AND KURT WEILL; The Threepenny Opera; The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; 10 MARXISM AND THE THEATRE; Saint Joan of the Stockyards; The Decision; The Mother; 11 OPPOSITION PLAYS; Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.…”
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The German cabaret legacy in American popular music / by Farina, William, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Great American Cultural Invasion; 3. Kurt Weill and Die Dreigroschenoper; 4. Lotte Lenya, Future Tony Award Winner; 5. …”
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Weill's Musical Theater : Stages of Reform. by Hinton, Stephen

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Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States /

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Reflections on American music : the twentieth century and the new millennium : a collection of essays presented in honor of the College Music Society /

Table of Contents: “…Shifferd -- Finding our way back home : tonality in the twenty-first century / Robert Sirota -- Kurt Weill's Americana : the open road to the future / Jack Sullivan -- Performing-rights collectives : dinosaurs of the new millennium? …”
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The promise of cinema : German film theory, 1907--1933 /

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