Tonality as Drama : Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas / Edward D. Latham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2008Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (240 pages): illContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781574413717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 782.10973 22
LOC classification:
  • MT95 .L37 2008
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Contents:
Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).

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