Inside Bluebeard's castle : music and drama in Bartók's opera /
This is a study of Bartok's opera ""Bluebeard's Castle"". It adopts a broad approach to the study of opera by introducing, in addition to the expected music-dramatic analysis, topics of an interdisciplinary nature that are new to the field of Bartok studies including a...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 ; 5. Bartók's revisions to the opera, 1911-1917
- Part III. Contextual studies. 6. The Bluebeard story at the turn of the century ; 7. Judith : the significance of a name
- Appendix: Duke Bluebeard's castle : notes on the text by Béla Bálzs, circa 1915.