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1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages) : illustrations |
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Backgrounds and development: the new musical language and its correspondence with psycho-dramatic principles of symbolist opera -- The new musical language -- Trauma, gender, and the unfolding of the unconscious -- 'Pelléas et Mélisande': Polarity of characterizations: human beings as real-life individuals and instruments of fate -- 'Pelléas et Mélisande': Fate and the unconscious: transformational function of the dominant ninth chord; symbolism of sonority -- 'Pelléas et Mélisande': Musico-dramatic turning point: intervallic expansion as symbol of dramatic tension and change of mood -- 'Pelléas et Mélisande': Mélisande as Christ symbol- life, death, and resurrection- and motivic reinterpretations of the whole-tone dyad -- 'Pelléas et Mélisande': Circuity of fate and resolution of Mélisande's dissonant pentatonic- whole-tone conflict -- 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle': Psychological motivation: symbolic interaction of diatonic, whole-tone, and chromatic extremes -- 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle': Toward character reversal: reassignment of pentatonic and whole-tone spheres -- 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle': The Nietzschean condition and polarity of characterizations: diatonic-chromatic extremes -- 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle': Final transformation and retreat into eternal darkness: synthesis of pentatonic/ diatonic and whole-tone spheres -- Symbolism and expressionism in other early Twentieth-century operas |
| Summary |
The authors explore the means by which two early 20th-century operas - Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' (1902) and Bartók's 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle' (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Pelléas et Mélisande.
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Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Kékszakállú herceg vára.
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Kékszakállú herceg vára (Bartók, Béla) fast |
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Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy, Claude) fast |
| Subject |
Symbolism in music.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
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Symbolism in music
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Opera's.
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Symbolisme.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Antokoletz, Juana Canabal.
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| ISBN |
1423726316 |
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9781423726319 |
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9780195103830 |
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0195103831 |
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1280452501 |
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9781280452505 |
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9786610452507 |
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6610452504 |
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0195355954 |
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9780195355956 |
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1602561095 |
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9781602561090 |
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9780199868865 |
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0199868867 |
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