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<p><P>Two early twentieth-century operas &#151; Debussy's <b>Pelleas et Melisande</b> (1902) and Bartok's <b>Duke Bluebeard's Castle</b> (1911) &#151; transformed the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language. This new language was based almost exclusively on interactions between folk modalities and their more abstract symmetrical transformations. Elliott Antokoletz reveals not only the new musical language of these operas, but also the way in which they share a profound correspondence with the growing symbolist literary movement as reflected in their libretti. In the symbolist literary movement, authors reacted to the realism of nineteenth-century theatre by conveying meaning by suggestion, rather than direct statement. The symbolist conception included a new interest in psychological motivation and consciousness manifested itself in metaphor, ambiguity, and symbol.<P>In this groundbreaking study, Antokoletz links the new musical language of these two operas with this symbolist conception and reveals a direct connection between the Debussy and Bartok operas. He shows how the opposing harmonic extremes serve as a basis for the dramatic polarity between real-l

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Author

Elliott Antokoletz, Juana Canabal Antokoletz

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195365825

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Music, Arts