Flemish music theatre since 1950
Subtitle: historical overview, discussion of selected works and inventory
By: ed. by Mark Delaere and Veronique Verspeurt
Series: Contemporary music in Flanders -- V; Contemporary music in Flanders ; 5
Publisher: Matrix, New Music Documentation Centre
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leuven, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9789077717004
Subjects: Music theater; History and criticism; Analysis, appreciation; Opera; Excerpts; Operas
Notes: "With support of Flanders Music Centre"--Cover.

Accompanying compact disc includes recordings of music theater excerpts by various Flemish composers; includes several live recordings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical overview; title: Discussion of selected works; title: Inventory; title: List of publishers and record companies; title: Track list CD; title: Words to the music theatre excerpts on the CD.; title: Contents of accompanying compact disc: Ulrike, een antieke tragedie. Act 1, Proloog (fragment) / Raoul De Smet (2:31); title: The woman who walked into doors. Act 1, scene 8, Me then / Kris Defoort (4:40); title: Willem van Saeftinghe (television opera). First scene (fragment) / Frédéric Devreese (4:56); title: Triumph of the spirit over matter. First scene (fragment) / Wim Henderickx (3:47); title: Das Schloss. Prelude ; Act 1, scene 1 (fragment) / André Laporte (4:48); title: De nozem en de nimf. Scene 1 (fragment) / Willem Pelemans (4:40); title: Hercules Haché = The adventure of a professor. Act III, scene 6 / Lucien Posman (4:29); title: Men in tribulation (fragment) / Eric Sleichim (5:23); title: Diep in het bos. En ik weet een man (scène 4) / Dick van der Harst (3:44); title: La Strada. Act 1, scene 2, Gelsomina's song / Luc Van Hove (3:45); title: Charms. Ik walf van alles / Peter Vermeersch (2:43); title: Hoe de slakken een huisje kregen (fragment of the beginning) / Peter Welffens (5:36)