Opera After 1900
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780754628989
Subjects: Opera, europe
Description: The contents of this book covers expressive principle and orchestral polyphony in Schoenberg's 'Erwartung', Schoenberg as Moses and Aron, Hans Pfitzner's 'Palestrina' and the impotence of early lateness, method and meaning in Britten's 'Billy Budd', and much more.