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9780195109993

Inside Bluebeard's Castle Music and Drama in Béla Bartók's Opera

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    9780195109993

  • ISBN10:

    0195109996

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-11-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This is the first full-length examination of Bartok's 1911 opera DukeBluebeard's Castle, an authoritative study of one of the twentieth century'senduring operatic works. Author Carl S. Leafstedt adopts a broad approach to thestudy of opera by introducing, in addition to the expected music-dramaticanalysis, topics of a more interdisciplinary nature that are new to the field ofBartok studies. These new areas of critical and scholarly terrain include adetailed literary study of the libretto and a gender-focused analysis of theopera's female character, Judith.Distinguished by its reliance on original Hungarian source material as hereintranslated by Leafstedt and made available in English for the first time, thisbook will surely fascinate music scholars and opera lovers alike.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(10)
PART I. BARTOK, BALAZS, AND THE CREATION OF A MODERN HUNGARIAN OPERA
Bartok, Balazs, and the Creation of Bluebeard's Castle
13(20)
Bluebeard as Theatre: The Dramatic Heritage of Balazs's Symbolist Play
33(20)
PART II. MUSIC AND DRAMA IN Bluebeard's Castle
The Music of Bluebeard's Castle
53(32)
Analysis of Individual Scenes
85(40)
Prologue of the Bard
86(4)
The First Door Scene: Bluebeard's Torture Chamber
90(7)
The Second Door Scene: Bluebeard's Armory
97(2)
The Third Door Scene: Bluebeard's Treasury
99(6)
The Fourth Door Scene: Bluebeard's Garden
105(2)
The Fifth Door Scene: Bluebeard's Domains
107(4)
The Sixth Door Scene: The Lake of Tears
111(10)
The Seventh Door Scene: The Former Wives
121(4)
Bartok's Revisions to the Opera, 1911--1917
125(36)
PART III. CONTEXTUAL STUDIES
The Bluebeard Story at the Turn of the Century
161(24)
Judith: The Significance of a Name
185(16)
Appendix: Duke Bluebeard's Castle: Notes on the Text by Bela Balazs, circa 1915 201(4)
Notes 205(20)
Selected Bibliography 225(6)
Index 231

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