Tonality as Drama : Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas - Latham, Edward David; Project Muse. (Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2008)
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).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
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Keywords: Opera -- United States -- 20th century; Operas -- Analysis, appreciation; Copland, Aaron, -- 1900-1990.; Gershwin, George, -- 1898-1937.; Weill, Kurt, -- 1900-1950.; Joplin, Scott, -- 1868-1917.; Electronic books