Tonality as drama closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas /
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Denton, Tex. :
University of North Texas Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Tonality 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).