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Tonality as drama closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas
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Tonality as drama [electronic resource] : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / Edward D. Latham.
ISBN
9781574413717
9781574412499 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 221 p. :) ill. ;
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Film, Theater, and Performing Arts Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
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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