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The staged performance of vocal music that
deliberately sets out to get away from the
grandiose style and scale of traditional
opera. Its origins can be traced to the 1920s
and 1930s, to plays with music like Kurt
Weill's Mahagonny-Songspiel, but it came into
its own as a movement in the 1960s. It
includes not just contemporary opera (such as
Alexander Goehr's Naboth's Vineyard 1968) but
also works like Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight
Songs for a Mad King 1969.