LEADER 02907nam 22007094a 450 001 9910166653803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612555480 010 $a9781282555488 010 $a1282555480 010 $a9781574413717 010 $a1574413716 010 $a9781441646200 010 $a1441646205 035 $a(CKB)2560000000012938 035 $a(EBL)517531 035 $a(OCoLC)745977024 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000429826 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274531 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000429826 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10452162 035 $a(PQKB)11100195 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC517531 035 $a(OCoLC)621699410 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6886 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL517531 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10383995 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL255548 035 $a(ScCtBLL)b17a363f-4483-4cfc-87f2-a1358003f35e 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29470 035 $a(Perlego)2330052 035 $a(oapen)doab29470 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000012938 100 $a20080325d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTonality as drama $eclosure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas /$fEdward D. Latham 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aDenton, Tex. $cUniversity of North Texas Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781574412499 311 08$a1574412493 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index. 327 $aTonality 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). 330 $aDrawing 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? 606 $aOperas$xAnalysis, appreciation 606 $aOpera$zUnited States$y20th century 615 0$aOperas$xAnalysis, appreciation. 615 0$aOpera 676 $a782.10973 700 $aLatham$b Edward David$0949430 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910166653803321 996 $aTonality as drama$92145932 997 $aUNINA