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Singing Archaeology : Philip Glass's Akhnaten Music/culture
author
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Richardson, John.
publisher
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Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin
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081956317X
print isbn13
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9780819563170
ebook isbn13
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9780585371313
language
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English
subject
Glass, Philip.--Akhnaten, Glass, Philip--Criticism and interpretation.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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ML410.G398R54 1999eb
ddc
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782.1
subject
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Glass, Philip.--Akhnaten, Glass, Philip--Criticism and interpretation.
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Singing Archaeology
Page ii
MUSIC / CULTURE
A series from Wesleyan University Press
Edited by George Lipsitz, Susan McClary, and Robert Walser
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Singing Archaeology
Philip Glass's Akhnaten
John Richardson
Page iv
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1999 by John Richardson All rights reserved Printed in the United States of American 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book
Illustrations from Wallis Budge, Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism, and Egyptian Monotheism (New York: Dover, 1991 [1923]), and from L. Austine Waddell, Tibetan Buddhism (New York: Dover, 1972 [1885]), are used by permission of the publisher.
The thirty-four excerpts from Philip Glass, Akhnaten, Satyagraha, 1+1, Two Pages, and Einstein On The Beach, which appear throughout this book as "Examples," are used by permission of Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc., New York.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
1. Oedipus and Akhnaton: Of Origins and Archaeologies
1
2. Glass's Poetics of Postmodernism
19
3. The Musical Language of Akhnaten
53
4. Narrating from a Distance: Representations of the Old Order in the Prelude and the First Two Scenes
90
5. Higher Love: New Geometries of Power, Desire, and Exclusion in the Trio and Two "Duets" of Akhnaten, Nefertiti, and Tye
131
6. The Illusion of Autonomy: Apotheosis and Degeneration in Akhnaten's Hymn to the Sun and in the Family Scene
185
7. Repudiation and Resurrection: The Final Three Scenes
232
8. Some Thoughts on the Reception of Akhnaten
245
Notes
257
Index
287
Page vii
Illustrations
The Three Patriarchs, Aye, Horemhab, and the Amon High Priest, Crown Amenhotep IV (Akhnaten) (Act 1, Scene 2)
128
Akhnaten and Nefertiti at the Palace Balcony, or Window of Appearances, with Their Three Eldest Daughters Bestowing Gifts on Their Followers
132
The Atenist Trio, Tye, Akhnaten, and Nefertiti (Act 3, Epilogue)
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