The Manipulation of Time Perception in John Adams's Doctor Atomic

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dc.contributor.advisorHaldey, Olgaen_US
dc.contributor.authorLintott, Robert Warrenen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMusicen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-03T05:31:51Z
dc.date.available2010-07-03T05:31:51Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is the first scholarly study of John Adams's 2005 opera Doctor Atomic. The study includes a brief history of the opera. It then concentrates specifically on one aspect of the work: time perception. Using a newly developed comprehensive methodology, I examine the manipulation of "clock time," "stage time," and "psychological time" in the libretto, the score, and the staging of Doctor Atomic. Thus, a dichotomy between poetry and prose in the "found" texts of Peter Sellars's libretto is reflected in a similar psychological time dichotomy of "now" vs. the timeless. Adams's score accentuates this point by relying on compositional techniques of the Baroque, as well as effectively elongates stage time in the final countdown scene. Finally, the analysis of the 2007 Amsterdam production of the opera reveals that a combination of props, blocking, and lighting in Sellars's staging contributes to the manipulation of the audience's perception of time.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/10435
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusicen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMusical Performancesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDoctor Atomicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJohn Adamsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOperaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPeter Sellarsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSan Francisco Operaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTimeen_US
dc.titleThe Manipulation of Time Perception in John Adams's Doctor Atomicen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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