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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004 : adaptations and re-writings /

Table of Contents: “…Ekstasen der Sachlichkeit : Zur Dreigroschenoper (1928) von Bertolt Brecht und Kurt Weill /…”
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Threepenny Opera. by Brecht, Bertolt

Table of Contents: “…-- Brecht's views on theatre -- Historical background to The Threepenny Opera -- Theatrical background to The Threepenny Opera -- The Beggar's Opera -- Kurt Weill, music, and song -- Performance history -- Further Reading -- THE THREEPENNY OPERA -- Additional Texts -- Notes by Brecht -- Note by Kurt Weill -- Conversation between Brecht and Strehler -- Notes -- Questions for Further Study…”
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Interwar symphonies and the imagination : politics, identity, and the sound of 1933 / by MacGregor, Emily Jean, 1987-

Table of Contents: “…Between Europe and America : Kurt Weill's Symphony in a Suitcase -- Listening for the Intimsphäre in Hans Pfitzner's Symphony in C♯ Minor : Berlin -- Liberalism, Race, and the American West in Roy Harris's Symphony 1933 : Boston - New York -- Aaron Copland's and Carlos Chávez's Pan American Bounding Line : New York - Mexico City -- Arthur Honegger's 'modernised Eroica' : Paris - Berlin -- The Right Kind of Symphonist : Florence Price and Kurt Weill New York & Chicago 1933-1934 - London.…”
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Composers of the Nazi era : eight portraits / by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Werner Egk : the enigmatic opportunist -- Paul Hindemith : the reluctant emigré -- Kurt Weill : a survivor on two continents -- Karl Amadeus Hartmann : the composer as dissident -- Carl Orff : man of legend -- Hans Pfitzner : Magister Teutonicus Miser -- Arnold Schoenberg : musician of contrasts -- Richard Strauss : Jupiter compromised.…”
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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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Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein : a study of influence / by Schmid, Rebecca

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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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The Democratic Gap : Transcultural Confrontations of German Immigrants and the Promise of American Democracy. by Mehring, Frank

Table of Contents: “…V Staging Americanness: Kurt WeillSelf-Americanization: Performing the "Self" as "Other"; Imaginary Spaces: Patriotic Musicals; Theatricality of "America": Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes; Summary; VI Afro-German-American Dissent: Hans J. …”
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The seven deadly sins of the petty bourgeoisie : ballet / by Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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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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The rise and fall of the City of Mahagonny / by Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956

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After Mahler : Britten, Weill, Henze, and romantic redemption / by Downes, Stephen C., 1962-

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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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Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde : a biocritical sourcebook /

Table of Contents: “…Murray Schafer -- Alfred Schnittke -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Dmitry Shostakovich -- Aleksandr Skryabin -- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji -- Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Igor Stravinsky -- To̿ru Takemitsu -- Vladimir Ussachevsky -- Edgard Vare̿se -- Wladimir Vogel -- Ivan Vyshnegradsky -- Anton Webern -- Kurt Weill -- Christian Wolff -- Stefan Wolpe -- Iannis Xenakis -- Isang Yun -- Frank Zappa -- Bernd Zimmermann.…”
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A gambler's instinct : the story of Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford / by Barranger, Milly S.

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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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Opera for the people. by Graf, Herbert, 1903-

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Virtues and vices in the arts : a sourcebook. by Tucker, Shawn R.

Table of Contents: “…The Tradition Extended; The Struggle III; The Virtues and Vices in Everyday Life and in Death II; The Vitality of Vice II; Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography; Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil and the Antichrist; Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's the Seven Deadly Sins; C.S. …”
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