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Puccini's Women
ISBN-13: 9783639129403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 252 str.
This book explores the postmodernist aspects of Puccini's operas and focuses on his female protagonists-Mimi, Musetta, Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot and Liu. Combining a Schenkerian analysis with dualism, I present their complementary dialogue in my analysis. Mimi focuses on the subdominant to present her futile attempts to escape from death. The subdominant in Musetta displays her attractiveness. Tosca concentrates on the submediant that presents the boundary of her world. Floria Tosca can do no harm to anyone. Yet, the diva will act out through the device of deceptive motion killing Scarpia. Butterfly is both an insider and outsider in her life. The Japanese Ying and Yang system portrays that she can never abandon her inherent Japanese identity. Turandot explores Western tonality as it is interwoven with the Chinese pentatonic system and demonstrates how Turnadot is possessed by Lo-u-Ling. Liu's sacrifice is prefigured through pseudo-pentatonic writing. The book concludes with an examination of Puccini's overall harmonic evolution, showing how weakened hierarchic relationships in the music of these six female characters allows exotic borrowings to be subsumed in a tonal framework.
This book explores the postmodernist aspects ofPuccinis operas and focuses on his femaleprotagonists-Mimì, Musetta, Tosca, Butterfly,Turandot and Liù. Combining a Schenkerian analysiswith dualism, I present their complementary dialoguein my analysis. Mimì focuses on the subdominant topresent her futile attempts to escape from death. Thesubdominant in Musetta displays her attractiveness.Tosca concentrates on the submediant that presentsthe boundary of her world. Floria Tosca can do noharm to anyone. Yet, the diva will act out throughthe device of deceptive motion killing Scarpia.Butterfly is both an insider and outsider in herlife. The Japanese Ying and Yang system portrays thatshe can never abandon her inherent Japanese identity.Turandot explores Western tonality as it isinterwoven with the Chinese pentatonic system anddemonstrates how Turnadot is possessed by Lo-u-Ling.Liùs sacrifice is prefigured throughpseudo-pentatonic writing. The book concludes with anexamination of Puccinis overall harmonic evolution,showing how weakened hierarchic relationships in themusic of these six female characters allows exoticborrowings to be subsumed in a tonal framework.
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