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The musical portrayal of the dissolution of the self in the opera Madame butterfly : a study of Puccini's tonal language / by Jonathan Christian Petty.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1800 .P48 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petty, Jonathan Christian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroines in opera.
- Human sacrifice in opera.
- Geishas.
- Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Madama Butterfly--History and criticism.
- Puccini, Giacomo.
- Japan--In opera.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 149 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, New York : the Edwin Mellen Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Concerning Lexical Tonality
- II. Orientalism and the Ellis Island Archetype
- III. The Yankee Vagabond
- IV. The Fairest of Each Country
- V. The Little Moon Goddess
- VI. "You Are All the World to Me"
- VII. The Tonal Semantics of Cio-Cio's Death
- VIII. Why Does Cio-Cio Have to Die?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781495509902
- 1495509907
- OCLC:
- 1317310302
- Publisher Number:
- 99991401531
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