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from PART 3 - THEORIES AND PRACTICES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
Brecht asserted in a 1935 essay that it was music which 'made possible something which we had long since ceased to take for granted, namely the “poetic theatre'” (BT, pp. 84-90). Music provided him with a powerful mechanism to reclaim and refunction in 'epic drama' the presentational mode of address, long a standard convention in most forms of music-theatre but discarded by modern drama after the 'fourth wall' had been dismantled by naturalism and realism. Brecht's relationship to music, therefore, was as essential as it was complex. Although little interested in musical repertoire or issues extraneous to his efforts in the theatre, ironically Brecht first gained wide public recognition through the musical settings of his works: opera librettos, plays with music, a ballet, dramatic cantatas, an oratorio, musical films, even commercial jingles. By 1931, music critic Hans Mersmann could even proclaim: 'New Music in Germany has found its poet.
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