Singing archaeology
Subtitle: Philip Glass's Akhnaten
By: John Richardson
Series: Music/culture; Music/culture
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780585371313
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; MUSIC; Genres & Styles; Opera; Akhnaten (Glass, Philip)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Oedipus and Akhnaton: of origins and archaeologies; title: Glass's poetics of postmodernism; title: The musical language of Akhnaten; title: Narrating from a distance: representations of the old order in the prelude and the first two scenes; title: Higher love: new geometries of power, desire, and exclusion in the trio and two "Duets" of Akhnaten, Nefertiti, and Tye; title: The illusion of autonomy: apotheosis and degeneration in Akhnaten's Hymn to the sun and in the family scene; title: Repudiation and resurrection: the final three scenes; title: Some thoughts on the reception of Akhnaten.