Tonality as drama [electronic resource] : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / Edward D. Latham.
By: Latham, Edward David.
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BookPublisher: Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2008Description: xv, 221 p. : ill.Subject(s): Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917. Treemonisha | Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Street scene | Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Porgy and Bess | Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Tender land | Operas -- Analysis, appreciation | Opera -- United States -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 782.10973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
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).
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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