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UNINA9910166653803321 |
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Autore |
Latham Edward David |
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Titolo |
Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / / Edward D. Latham |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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9786612555480 |
9781282555488 |
1282555480 |
9781574413717 |
1574413716 |
9781441646200 |
1441646205 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Operas - Analysis, appreciation |
Opera - United States - 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Drawing on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology, this book answers a question about twentieth-century music: Why does tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres? |
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