Text and music in German operas of the 1920s
Text and music in German operas of the 1920s: a study of the relationship between compositional style and text-setting in Richard Strauss' Die ägyptische Helena, Alban Berg's Wozzeck, and Arnold Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen Rebekka Fritz
Publisher: Frankfurt am Main ; Peter Lang, 1998.
ISBN: 3631323840
DDC: 782.109430904
LCC: ML1705
Summary:
As compositional style develops from tonal to atonal and twelvetone
compositions, the function of music changes from denoting the content
of text to embodying its ideas. The text-music relationship no longer
determines style, but it expresses the idea of a work. The thesis
proposes that the move towards the expressive autonomy of music in
opera is possible only with the development of atonality and
dodecaphony.
Three operas, representing the dominant compositional styles of the
time, illustrate these developments: Richard Strauss' Die Agyptische
Helena, Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Arnold Schoenberg's Von heute auf
morgen.
Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Trinity
College Dublin, 1997).
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