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Richard Strauss's Elektra (Paperback, New edition)
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Richard Strauss's Elektra (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation
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Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his
successful partnership with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
It is one of the most important operas of the early twentieth
century and it solidified Strauss's status as the leading German
opera-composer of his day. Bryan Gilliam's study of this major work
examines its musical-historical context and also provides a
detailed analysis of some of its musical features. He establishes a
chronology of the evolution of the opera and places it in the
larger framework of German opera of the time. His detailed
examination of the sketch-books enables him to offer fresh insight
into Strauss's use of motifs and overall tonal structure. In so
doing he shows how the work's arresting dissonance and chromaticism
has hidden its similarities to his later, seemingly more tonally
conservative opera, Der Rosenkavalier - not only does Strauss in
both operas exploit a variety of musical styles to express irony,
parody, and other emotions, but both are in fact thoroughly tonal.
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