1987
Harmony
Preface to the Fifth Edition Mark DeVoto Introduction to the First Edition (1941) Walter Piston Tonal Harmony in Common Practice Materials of Music: Scales and Intervals Intervals Measured by Scales Scale Degrees Classification of Intervals Compound Intervals Inversion of Intervals Enharmonic Intervals Triads Chord Factors Triads on the Scale Degrees Kinds of Triads Inversions Consonant …
A Song of Love and Death
Preface Rite Orpheus Dionysus Eros Mephistopheles Dagon Repertory Classical Opera Mozart Romantic Opera Beethoven and Political Opera Berlioz and Historical Opera Verdi Wagner Realism and Puccini Wagnerism and Strauss Past and Present Performance Phantoms of the Opera The Met and the Metropolis Opera in a Garden New Theaters Drama Against Music After the Revolution, and …
Noel Coward
The Mask Society’s Hero Consider the Audience … ‘I’ve Had to Formulate a Creed …’ Mainly about Style Five Comedies Afterword
Speaking
Understanding speaking Speaking as a skill Knowledge and skill Oral skills and interaction Differences between speech and writing Introduction Processing conditions of speech and writing Reciprocity conditions of speech and writing Production skills Introduction Facilitation Compensation Conclusion Interaction skills Introduction Routines Negotiation skills Negotiation of meaning Management of interaction Conclusion Learner strategies of communication Introduction …
Bertolt Brecht
Introduction: Life and Works The Plays of the Twenties Theories of Theatre Brecht’s Practice of Theatre Saint Joan of the Stockyards Mother Courage and Her Children The Life of Galileo The Good Person of Szechwan The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Tennessee Williams
Introduction and Life Form, Theme and Character Early One-Act Plays (1939-46) The Glass Menagerie (1944) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Summer and Smoke (1947) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Wanderer Plays (1957-9) Reversals of the Pattern (1943-61 Late Plays (1962-81)
Lorca: Plays 1
Lorca – A Chronology Introduction Gwynne Edwards