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Author:   Elliot Antokoletz
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.003kg
ISBN:  

9780195365825

ISBN 10:   0195365828
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   20 March 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Acknowledgments 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 in the Debussy and Bartók Operas 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 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 Extemes 10: Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Toward Character Reversal; Reassigment 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, Ambiguous Tonal Cycle, Retreat into Eternal Darkness; Synthesis of Pentatonic/Diatonic and Whole-tone Spheres 13: Symbolism and Expressionism in Other Early Twentieth-century Operas 14: Epilogue

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Elliott Antokoletz received the Béla Bártok Memorial Plaque and Diploma from the Hungarian Government in 1981. He is author of several books and co-editor of the International Journal of Musicology. He received his Ph.D in musicology from CUNY in 1975.

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