The Stage Works Of Philip Glass Robert F Waters by Robert F. Waters 9781107049758, 110704975X instant download after payment.

The Stage Works of Philip Glass is the first publication to exclusively examine
Glass’s stage works from 1976 to the present day. Glass, who is regularly
acclaimed as the most popular living classical composer, created stage works
that have had a mesmerizing effect on younger generations. Robert Waters
analyzes Glass’s music for the theater in the context of works by other
composers interested in so-called minimalist features. His discussion includes
three introductory chapters that address the validity of terms such as
minimalism, post-minimalism, postmodernism, and neo-Romanticism,
followed by a brief overview of Glass’s life and works in the period before he
began to compose for the theater. Waters examines the different types of
theater responsible for Glass’s impact, including Robert Wilson’s Theater of
Images. He sheds light on Glass’s philosophy regarding staging, text, and
other theatrical components, which includes a defiance of conventional
narrative, visual and aural dissociation as a theatrical technique, and
deconstructionist concepts.