Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious

Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious
ISBN-10
0195103831
ISBN-13
9780195103830
Category
Music
Pages
361
Language
English
Published
2004-07-22
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Authors
Elliott Antokoletz, Juana Canabal Antokoletz

Description

The authors explore the means by which two early 20th-century operas - Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' (1902) and Bartók's 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle' (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language.

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