Singing Archaeology: Selected Poems 1943-1993

by John Richardson and John Richardson

Book Overview

Illuminates the aesthetics of a major American composer.

While Philip Glass's operas, film scores, symphonies, and popular works have made him America's best-known classical composer, almost no analysis of his compositional techniques grounded in current cultural theory has yet been published. John Richardson's in-depth examination shows how the third opera of Glass's famous trilogy, the story of an adrogynous monarch who authored...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819563420
• ISBN13: 9780819563422
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher