Musical symbolism in the operas of Debussy and Bartok : trauma, gender, and the unfolding of the unconscious / / Elliott Antokoletz with the collaboration of Juana Canabal Antokoletz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957965803321
• Autore: Antokoletz Elliott
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-45250-1; 9786610452507; 0-19-535595-4; 1-4237-2631-6; 1-60256-109-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 346 p. ) : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): AntokoletzJuana Canabal
• Disciplina: 782.1/092/2
• Soggetti: Symbolism in music
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: 2004.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-340) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- 1. Backgrounds and Development: The New Musical Language and Its Correspondence with Psycho-Dramatic Principles of Symbolist Opera -- 2. The New Musical Language -- 3. Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious -- 4. Pelléas et Mélisande: Polarity of Characterizations: Human Beings as Real-Life Individuals and Instruments of Fate -- 5. Pelléas et Mélisande: Fate and the Unconscious: Transformational Function of the Dominant Ninth Chord -- Symbolism of Sonority -- 6. Pelléas et Mélisande: Musico-Dramatic Turning Point: Intervallic Expansion as Symbol of Dramatic Tension and Change of Mood -- 7. Pelléas et Mélisande: Mélisande as Christ Symbol-Life, Death, and Resurrection-and Motivic Reinterpretations of the Whole-Tone Dyad -- 8. Pelléas et Mélisande: Circuity of Fate and Resolution of Mélisande's Dissonant Pentatonic-Whole-Tone Conflict -- 9. Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Psychological Motivation: Symbolic Interaction of Diatonic, Whole-Tone, and Chromatic Extremes -- 10. Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Toward Character Reversal: Reassignment of Pentatonic and Whole-Tone Spheres -- 11. Duke Bluebeard's Castle: The Nietzschean Condition and Polarity of ; Characterizations: Diatonic-Chromatic Extremes -- 12. Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Final Transformation and Retreat into Eternal Darkness: Synthesis of Pentatonic/Diatonic and Whole-Tone Spheres -- 13. Symbolism and Expressionism in Other Early Twentieth-Century Operas -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.