A comparative study of words and music in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias (1947) : constructions of gender and sexuality
Writing in 2000, Daniel Albright argues that the opera Les Mamelles de Tiresias (1947) by Francis Poulenc (l899- 1963) is an exemplar of surrealist ' dissonance' between words and music. Poulenc, Albright argues, consciously 'violates' the dramatic trajectory of the words by prov...
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Lancaster University
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619281 |