Musical Dramaturgy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth ...

Indeed, it is probably this fixed perspective which leads him towards the conclusion that when the modern dramas by playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen, H.A. Jones and A. W. Pinero became popular, dramatic action was no longer accompanied by live music: ‘[S]erious drama, call it melodrama or tragedy, was suddenly music-free’ (Mayer, 1980, 49). ................
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