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4 lis 1999 · Inside Bluebeard’s Castle is an ideal starting point for research in twentieth-century music, Hungarian cultural history, and opera studies, as well as an invaluable guide for anyone interested in Bartók’s only opera.
Despite the absence of any overtly nationalistic references, Duke Bluebeard's Castle marks an important stage in BartoÂk's development of a post-colonial musical discourse relevant to a modern and, at the time of composition, a soon to be fully-autonomous Hungary.2 Duke Bluebeard's Castle reduces opera to its fundamentals.
A detailed analysis of the relationships between the music and movement in Pina Bausch’s 1977 work Bluebeard: on listening to a tape recording of Béla Bartók’s opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” reveals many layers of both structure and meaning to the work.
Abstract: The intention in this lecture is to explore the means by which Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) transforms the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language, and how this language reflects the psycho-dramatic symbolism of Bela Balazs, Hungarian disciple of the Belgian
4 lis 1999 · The first full-length study of Bartok's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, this book is an authoritative study of one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works.
This is the first book-length examination of Bartok's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in addition to music-dramatic analysis, a number of topics that are new to the field of Bartok studies.
Bluebeard's Castle: how Bartók's psychodrama holds a dark fascination ...
