Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok
Antokoletz, ElliotAuthor
Antokoletz, Juana Canabal
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2004.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945.
Symbolism in music.