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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Antokoletz, Elliott
Other Authors: Antokoletz, Juana Canabal
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Debussy, Claude, > 1862-1918. > Pelléas et Mélisande.
Bartók, Béla, > 1881-1945. > Kékszakállú herceg vára.
Bartók, Béla, > 1881-1945. > Château de Barbe-Bleue.
Kékszakállú herceg vára (Bartók, Béla)
Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy, Claude)
Symbolism in music.
Symbolisme dans la musique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Symbolism in music
Opera's.
Symbolisme.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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