{"product_id":"9780195365825","title":"Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMusical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bart k\u003c\/i\u003e explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's \u003ci\u003ePell as et M lisande\u003c\/i\u003e (1902) and Bart k's \u003ci\u003eDuke Bluebeard's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major\/minor scale system into a new musical language. It also looks at how this language reflects the psychodramatic symbolism of the Franco-Belgian poet, Maurice Maeterlinck, and his Hungarian disciple, B la Bal zs. These two operas represent the first significant attempts to establish more profound correspondences between the symbolist dramatic conception and the new musical language. \u003ci\u003eDuke Bluebeard's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e is based almost exclusively on interactions between pentatonic\/diatonic folk modalities and their more abstract symmetrical transformations (including whole-tone, octatonic, and other pitch constructions derived from the system of the interval cycles). The opposition of these two harmonic extremes serve as the basis for dramatic polarity between the characters as real-life beings and as instruments of fate. The book also explores the new musico-dramatic relations within their larger historical, social psychological, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016413462768,"sku":"9780195365825","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195365825_p0.jpg?v=1763664866","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195365825","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}