Notes - 'Frank Zappa's 200 Motels and the Theater of the Absurd' by Peter Evans
  1. Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. Music, Characterizations, Composed and
    Conducted By Frank Zappa, Perf. The Mothers of Invention, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Theodore Bikel, Ringo Starr, and Keith Moon. (Murakami Wolf/Bizarre Productions, 1971;Videocassette, MGM/UA HomeVideo, Inc., 1988).
  2. The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (Documentary Videocassette: Honker Home Video, 1989), 0:01.00.
  3. Frank Zappa, "Press Kit for 200 Motels", as cited by Kevin Courrier,
    Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Frank Zappa (Toronto: ECW Press, 2002), p. 225.
  4. David Sheff, "Playboy Interview (1993)" The Frank Zappa Companion: Four Decades of Commentary; ed. Richard Kostelanetz (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997), p. 242-4.
  5. Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1961), pp. 23-4.
  6. ibid., p.24.
  7. ibid., p.23.
  8. Erich Segal, The Death of Comedy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), pp. 431-2, original source for Adorno's quote is not cited.
  9. ibid, p. 421.
  10. Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd, p. 23.
  11. ibid., p. 22.
  12. George E. Wellwarth, The Theater of Protest and Paradox: Developments in the Avant-Garde Drama (New York University Press, 1964), p. x.
  13. ibid., p. x.
  14. Bob Mayberry, Theatre of Discord: Dissonance in Beckett, Albee and Pinter (Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989), p. 14.
  15. ibid., p. 18.
  16. ibid., p. 16.
  17. ibid., p. 18.
  18. Frank Zappa, liner notes for Mothers of Invention recording Freak Out! (Rykodisc RCD 10501, ©1966,1995).
  19. ibid.
  20. Zappa, Frank with Peter Ochiogrosso, The Real Frank Zappa Book (New York: Poseidon Press, 1989), p. 255.
  21. Courrier, Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Frank Zappa, p.81.
  22. ibid., p.3.
  23. ibid., p.163.
  24. Larry Kart, "Frank Zappa: The Mother of Us All," Downbeat 38 (November 1969), p: 14-15.
  25. The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (Documentary Videocassette: Honker Home Video, 1989), 0:00.21-0:00.27.
  26. Frank Zappa's 200 Motels. Perf. Mothers of Invention, The Royal
    Philharmonic Orchestra, Cond. Elgar Howarth, Narr. Theodore Bikel (RykoDisc/MGM Soundtracks, 1971, 1997), Disc 2, track 17.
  27. All time indices for scenes and songs given according to Frank
    Zappa's 200 Motels: Timed Cue Sheet and Transcription, transcribed by Romáán Garcíía Albertos and Patrick Neve (13 February 2003,
    <http://www.uoregon.edu/~splat/200_Motels_cue_sheet.html>), 0:01:11-0:07.33.
  28. Courrier, Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Frank Zappa, p. 225.
  29. Zappa's use of Varése-like material has been noted elsewhere, especially James Borders, "Form and Concept Album: Aspects of Modernism in Frank Zappa's Early Releases," Perspectives of New Music 39 (2001): pp. 135.
  30. An approximation of quote timing by the author based on, Frank Zappa's 200 Motels: Timed Cue Sheet and Transcription, transcribed by Romáán Garcíía Albertos and Patrick Neve, 0:05.00.
  31. Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd, p. 25.
  32. see note 27, 0:07.30.
  33. Frank Zappa's 200 Motels: Timed Cue Sheet and Transcription, transcribed by Albertos and Neve, 0:28.33-0:37.16.
  34. 0:28.33-0:29.33.
  35. 0:29.33-0:30.11.
  36. Ben Watson, "In Respect of Rubbish," The Frank Zappa Companion: Four Decades of Commentary, ed. Richard Kostelanetz (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997), p. 108.
  37. 0:30.11-0:30.47.
  38. 0:34.44.
  39. Courrier, Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Frank Zappa, pp. 220-1.
  40. Frank Zappa's 200 Motels: Timed Cue Sheet and Transcription, transcribed by Albertos and Neve, 1:02.05 -1:05.20.
  41. ibid., 0:19.21.
  42. 1:04.00.
  43. Mayberry, Theatre of Discord: Dissonance in Beckett, Albee and Pinter, p.18.
  44. Frank Zappa's 200 Motels: Timed Cue Sheet and Transcription, transcribed by Albertos and Neve, 1:24.39-1:34.47.
  45. Many authors have referred to the ending in this way, see Arved Ashby, "Frank Zappa and the Anti-Fetishist Orchestra." The Musical Quarterly 83.4 (1999): p. 593, and Courrier, Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Frank Zappa, pp. 230-1.
  46. Ashby, "Frank Zappa and the Anti-Fetishist Orchestra," p. 593.
  47. 1:25.06.
  48. 1:28.37.
  49. 1:31.02-1:31.26.
  50. Jonathan Bernard, "The Musical World(s?) of Frank Zappa: Some
    Observations of His 'Crossover' Pieces," Expression in Pop-Rock Music: a Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays, ed. Walter Everett, Studies in Contemporary Music and Culture, Vol. 2 (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000), pp. 166-8.
  51. 1:29.11.
  52. Segal, The Death of Comedy, p.452.
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