Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera (Cambridge Opera Handbooks)

Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) [Jul 26, 1990] Hinton, Stephen\n\nProduct Overview\nThis is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which\nexplores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a\ndetailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over\nthree decades, Stephen Hinton examines the spin-offs on which Weill and Brecht\nparticipated: the instrumental suite, the film, the lawsuit, the novel, and\nthe musical and textual revisions of songs. In a survey of the stage history,\nHinton pays particular attention to pioneering productions in Germany and\nGreat Britain. Kim Kowalke provides an exhaustive account of the history of\nThe Threepenny Opera in America, Geoffrey Abbott addresses questions\nconcerning authentic performance practice, and David Drew analyses large-scale\nmotivic relationships in the music. Among the earliest writings on the work\nreprinted here, those by Theodor W. Adorno-