The Baden-Baden Lesson On Consent - Synopsis

Synopsis

As ultimately published by Brecht, the eleven scenes are: The numbers in the score:
  1. Report on the flight
  2. The crash
  3. Investigation into whether humans help their kind
  4. Denial of help
  5. Council
  6. Contemplation of death
  7. Reading of the commentary
  8. The examination
  9. Fame & expropriation
  10. Ostracism
  11. Consent
  1. Report on the flight
  2. 1st investigation into whether humans help their kind
  3. The chorus addresses the fallen
  4. Contemplation of death (Film)
  5. Reading of the commentary
  6. 2nd investigation into whether humans help their kind (Clowns)
  7. Examination

The relation between these and the Lehrstück 'fragment' is not as straightforward as the table suggests. The first two are a simple splitting of Hindemith's #1, whereas Brecht's #3 is a merging of the original first and second investigations.

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