Musical symbolism in the operas of Debussy and Bartók : trauma, gender, and the unfolding of the unconscious /
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 lang...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.