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The Curios Carnival: Theatrimusicality, Avant-Garde pianism and the carnivalesque
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The Curios Carnival: Margaret Leng Tan's theatrimusicality [Published]
Citation
Tan, M. C. C. (2022). The Curios Carnival: Margaret Leng Tan's theatrimusicality. TDR: The Drama Review, 66(3), 52-63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1054204322000296
Abstract
Theatricality in music performances is often regarded as extraneous, but avantgarde toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan exploits the intermediality between theatricality and musicality to demonstrate how theatrimusicality is imperative to the creation and reception of her music. Curios (2015) is one example in which the work’s structure of meaning and the experience of the carnivalesque are evoked through such a theatrimusical dramaturgy.
Date Issued
2022
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal
TDR: The Drama Review