TY  - BOOK
AU  - Latham,Edward David
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Tonality as Drama : : Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas / 
SN  - 9781574413717
AV  - MT95 .L37 2008
U1  - 782.10973 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Denton, Tex.
PB  - University of North Texas Press
KW  - Copland, Aaron,
KW  - Gershwin, George,
KW  - Weill, Kurt,
KW  - Joplin, Scott,
KW  - Opera
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Operas
KW  - Analysis, appreciation
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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); Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/5458/
ER  -