Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / / Edward D. Latham

• Autore: Latham Edward David
• Pubblicazione: Denton, Tex., : University of North Texas Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.10973
• Soggetto topico: Operas - Analysis, appreciation; Opera - United States - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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).
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Tonality as drama
• ISBN: 9786612555480; 9781282555488; 1282555480; 9781574413717; 1574413716; 9781441646200; 1441646205
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910166653803321
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