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Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Antokoletz, Elliot, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Pelléas et Mélisande.
- Debussy, Claude.
- Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Kékszakállú herceg vára.
- Bartók, Béla.
- Symbolism in music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 346 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok
- Musical symbolism in the operas of Debussy and Bartâok
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2004
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 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; Symbolism of Sonority 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 Extremes 10. Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Toward Character Reversal: Reassignment 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 and Retreat into Eternal Darkness: Synthesis of Pentatonic/Diatonic and Whole-Tone Spheres 13. Symbolism and Expressionism in Other Early Twentieth-Century Operas Epilogue Works Cited
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028294-0
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