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LEADER: 01719cam a22003014a 4500
001 2008013679
003 DLC
005 20130402081708.0
008 080325s2008 txua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008013679
020 $a9781574412499 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aMT95$b.L37 2008
082 00 $a782.10973$222
100 1 $aLatham, Edward David.
245 10 $aTonality as drama :$bclosure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas /$cEdward D. Latham.
260 $aDenton, Tex. :$bUniversity of North Texas Press,$cc2008.
300 $axv, 221 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.
505 0 $aTonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).
650 0 $aOperas$xAnalysis, appreciation.
650 0 $aOpera$zUnited States$y20th century.
600 10 $aJoplin, Scott,$d1868-1917.$tTreemonisha.
600 10 $aWeill, Kurt,$d1900-1950.$tStreet scene.
600 10 $aGershwin, George,$d1898-1937.$tPorgy and Bess.
600 10 $aCopland, Aaron,$d1900-1990.$tTender land.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0815/2008013679.html