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"Two early twentieth-century operas - Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande (1902) and Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) - 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 librettos. In the symbolist literary movement, authors reacted to the realism of nineteenth-century theater 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." "In this 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-life beings and symbols of fate. He also explores how the librettos by Franco-Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck (Pelleas et Melisande) and his Hungarian disciple Bela Balazs (Duke Bluebeard's Castle) transform the internal concept of subconscious motivation into an external one, one in which fate controls human emotions and actions." "Using a pioneering approach to theoretical analysis, Antokoletz explores the new musico-dramatic relations within their larger historical, social, psychological, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
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Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious (Music)
June 29, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
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0195103831 9780195103830
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"By the end of the nineteenth century, many comforting beliefs about what it meant to be human and the accompanying rules and traditions inherent in that notion had been brought into question."
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