Tonality as drama
Subtitle: closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas
By: Edward D. Latham.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Denton, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781574412499
Subjects: Joplin, Scott, -- 1868-1917; Weill, Kurt, -- 1900-1950; Gershwin, George, -- 1898-1937; Copland, Aaron, -- 1900-1990; Operas -- Analysis, appreciation; Opera -- United States -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tonality as drama : an introduction; title: Dramatic closure : the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives; title: Tonal closure : a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama; title: The completed background line with open-ended coda : Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911); title: The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent : George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935); title: The multi-movement initial arpeggiation : Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947); title: The prolonged permanent interruption : Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).