title: David Lang’s Postminimalist Musical Theater
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metadata.value: Krom, Anna E.
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metadata.value: 2023-01-19T21:24:13Z
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metadata.value: 2023-01-19T21:24:13Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Krom, Anna. “David Lang’s Postminimalist Musical Theater”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 3 (2022): 432–448. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.302 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38874
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metadata.value: The article explores issues of the American musical theater of the nineteenth century, fruitfully
  developing on the basis of postminimalism. Among the brightest representatives of
  this style is the composer David Lang (1957), a member of the group “Bang on a Can”. His
  theatrical projects of the last two decades demonstrate a new phase in the development of
  postminimalist theater, the foundation of which was laid by his older contemporaries, Philip
  Glass, Steve Reich, and John Adams. Using the example of stage works — “The Difficulty of
  Crossing a Field” (2002), “Prisoner of the State” (2019), and “Anatomy Theater” (2016) — the
  author identifies the main features of Lang’s musical and theatrical style and traces a close
  relationship with the operas of his predecessors. They are brought closer by the appeal to
  postmodern dramaturgy (fragmentation, discreteness, commentarity), social problems, the
  desire for genre uniqueness of each performance, repetitive methods of organizing musical
  facture. In his theatrical work, Lang relies on postminimalism and repetitive technique, which
  manifests itself at different levels — dramatic, verbal (repetition of syllables, words, phrases
  in the libretto) and musical. A characteristic feature of Lang’s stage opuses is the synthesis of
  academic opera traditions and non-academic genres and directions (Musical, jazz, rap), which
  allows us to draw analogies with the art of crossovers. The Musical in some cases acts as the
  genre basis of the work (non-academic vocals, dances, a speech episodes). Lang’s theater is a
  chamber theater, it assumes a small composition of participants, placement of vocalists and
  orchestra members on the stage, laconic timing of plays. All these factors allow us to make an
  assumption about the formation in Lang’s musical and theatrical work of the next phase of the
  evolution of postminimalism, which can be characterized as postpostminimalism.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: David Lang
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bang on a Can
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: postminimalist musical theater
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Prisoner of the State
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Anatomy Theater
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repetitive technique
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: American opera of the XXI century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: David Lang’s Postminimalist Musical Theater
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metadata.value: Article
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