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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 : 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028294-0
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