Inside Bluebeard's Castle

Music and Drama in Béla Bartók's Opera

AvCarl S. Leafstedt

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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The first full-length study of Bartók's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, this book is an authoritative study of one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. It adopts a broad approach to the study of opera by introducing, in addition to the expected music-dramatic analysis, topics of a more interdisciplinary nature that are new to the field of Bartók studies, including a detailed literary study of the libretto and a gender-focused analysis of the opera's female character, Judith.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-11-04
Mått:157 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195109993

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...Leafsteadt thoroughly and imaginatively examines Judith's character and the psychological implications of the Bluebeard legend. Writing in an accessible style based on sound scholarship, the author unites literary and musical sources. This unique, high-level study of an important early-20th-century masterpiece should appeal to graduate students, researchers, and faculty.

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Introduction PART I. Bartók, Balázs, and the Creation of a Modern Hungarian Opera 1. Bartók, Balázs, and the Creation of Bluebeard's Castle 2. Bluebeard as Theater: The Dramatic Heritage of Balázs's Symbolist Play PART II. Music and Drama in Bluebeard's Castle 3. The Music of Bluebeard's Castle 4. Analysis of Individual Scenes - Prologue - Torture Chamber - Armory - Treasury - Garden - Bluebeard's Domains - Lake of Tears - Former Wives 5. Bartók's Revisions to the Opera, 1911-1917 PART III. Contextual Studies 6. The Bluebeard Story in Turn-of-the-Century Literature 7. Judith: The Significance of a Name Appendix. Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Notes on the text by Béla Balázs, circa 1915