Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy...

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Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók explores 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. It also looks at how this language reflects the psychodramatic symbolism of the Franco-Belgian poet, Maurice Maeterlinck, and his Hungarian disciple, Béla Balázs. These two operas represent the first significant attempts to establish more profound correspondences between the symbolist dramatic conception and the new musical language. Duke Bluebeard's Castle is based almost exclusively on interactions between pentatonic/diatonic folk modalities and their more abstract symmetrical transformations (including whole-tone, octatonic, and other pitch constructions derived from the system of the interval cycles). The opposition of these two harmonic extremes serve as the basis for dramatic polarity between the characters as real-life beings and as instruments of fate. The book also explores the new musico-dramatic relations within their larger historical, social psychological, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts.

Über den Autor

Elliott Antokoletz received the Béla Bártok Memorial Plaque and Diploma from the Hungarian Government in 1981. He is author of several books and co-editor of the International Journal of Musicology. He received his Ph.D in musicology from CUNY in 1975.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Backgrounds and Development: The New Musical Language and Its Correspondence with Psycho-Dramatic Principles of Symbolist Opera

2: The New Musical Language

3: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious in the Debussy and Bartók Operas

4: Pelléas et Mélisande: Polarity of Characterizations: Human Beings as Real-Life Individuals and Instruments of Fate

5: Pelléas et Mélisande: Fate and the Unconscious; Transformational Function of the Dominant-ninth Chord

6: Pelléas et Mélisande: Musico-Dramatic Turning Point: Intervallic Expansion as Symbol of Dramatic Tension and Change of Mood

7: Pelléas et Mélisande: Mélisande as Christ Symbol - Life, Death, and Resurrection - and Motivic Reinterpretations of the Whole-Tone Dyad

8: Pelléas et Mélisande: Circuity of Fate and Resolution of Mélisande's Dissonant Pentatonic-Whole-tone Conflict

9: Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Psychological Motivation; Symbolic Interaction of Diatonic, Whole-tone and Chromatic Extemes

10: Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Toward Character Reversal; Reassigment of Pentatonic and Whole-tone Spheres

11: Duke Bluebeard's Castle: The Nietzschean Condition and Polarity of Characterizations; Diatonic-chromatic Extremes

12: Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Final Transformation, Ambiguous Tonal Cycle, Retreat into Eternal Darkness; Synthesis of Pentatonic/Diatonic and Whole-tone Spheres

13: Symbolism and Expressionism in Other Early Twentieth-century Operas

14: Epilogue

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Importe , Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Musikgeschichte
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780195365825
ISBN-10:	0195365828
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Antokoletz, Elliott
Orchester:	Antokoletz, Juana Canabal
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Elliott Antokoletz
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.01.2008
Gewicht:	0,591 kg