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Latham, Edward David
Tonality as drama [electronic resource] : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / - Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, c2008. - 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references 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).
9781574412499 (cloth : alk. paper)
Operas—Analysis, appreciation.
Opera--United States--20th century.
782.10973
Tonality as drama [electronic resource] : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / - Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, c2008. - 1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references 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).
9781574412499 (cloth : alk. paper)
Operas—Analysis, appreciation.
Opera--United States--20th century.
782.10973