Dramaturgia muzyki
The Dramaturgy of Music

Summary/Abstract: A review of a book by Łukasz Grabuś, Lethal Forms: A Few Dramaturgical Strategies in Contemporary Opera (Księgarnia Akademicka, Krakow 2012). Pasiecznik writes that the publication "provides a detailed outline of the context for the development of innovative musical and theatrical forms in the 20th century.” Grabuś also introduces the concept of the dramaturgy of music, unknown in Poland, which "embraces all the acoustic, visual, musical, rhetorical, and dynamic aspects of the play.” The lethal opera of the title pertains to the category of negativity, in whose framework the secret, marginalized, and imperceptible becomes of interest.

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