Richard Strauss's Elektra by Bryan Gilliam (English) Paperback Book

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Bryan Gilliam's study of this major work looks at its musical-historical context: establishing its compositional chronology, examining critical response to the premiere—especially within the context of contemporary German opera. Gilliam, furthermore, explores a number of important, hitherto unexamined Elektra sources including Strauss's musically fresh insight into such issues as the relationship between voice and orchestra, thematic treatment, and tonal organization, all serving to enhance our understanding of this complex and compelling work.

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Elektra was the fourth of fifteen operas by Strauss and opened his successful partnership with the librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. 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 sketchbooks 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 have hidden its similarities to his later, seemingly more tonally conservative opera, Der Rosenkavalier not only does Strauss exploit in both a variety of musical styles to express irony, parody, and other emotions, but both are in fact thoroughly tonal.

Author Biography

Bryan Gilliam is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Music at Duke University.

Review

`Bryan Gilliam's monograph delves deep into the opera's origins by the closest analysis yet undertaken of the sketch-books at the composer's home in Garmisch and elsewhere. These shed fascinating light on Strauss's working methods. ... The book is a major contribution to the Strauss bibliography and is written ... with exemplary clarity.'Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph`a clear exposition of the creative facts with reference to this, the tautest of all the composer's operas ... The author follows this with an in-depth scene-by-scene tonal analysis which succeeds in maintaining the general reader's interest without ta[l]king down ... Gilliam's chronicle and sketchbook inventories will prove invaluable to musicologists, whilst the volume as a whole should appeal to all musically-literate Strauss-lovers'Musical Times'this is an important addition to the scholarly literature ... a valid scholarly approach'David F. Anderson, University of Chiacgo, Notes, March 1994

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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 arrestingdissonance 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.

Review Text

`Bryan Gilliam's monograph delves deep into the opera's origins by the closest analysis yet undertaken of the sketch-books at the composer's home in Garmisch and elsewhere. These shed fascinating light on Strauss's working methods. ... The book is a major contribution to the Strauss bibliography and is written ... with exemplary clarity.'Michael Kennedy, Sunday Telegraph`a clear exposition of the creative facts with reference to this, the tautest of all the composer's operas ... The author follows this with an in-depth scene-by-scene tonal analysis which succeeds in maintaining the general reader's interest without ta[l]king down ... Gilliam's chronicle and sketchbook inventories will prove invaluable to musicologists, whilst the volume as a whole should appeal to all musically-literate Strauss-lovers'Musical Times'this is an important addition to the scholarly literature ... a valid scholarly approach'David F. Anderson, University of Chiacgo, Notes, March 1994

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'this is an important addition to the scholarly literature ... a valid scholarly approach'David F. Anderson, University of Chiacgo, Notes, March 1994

Details ISBN0198166028 Author Bryan Gilliam Series Studies in Musical Genesis & Structure Language English ISBN-10 0198166028 ISBN-13 9780198166023 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 782.1 Year 1996 Publication Date 1996-03-31 Imprint Clarendon Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations halftones, figures, music examples, tables Pages 288 Residence NC, US Short Title RICHARD STRAUSSS ELEKTRA Audience Professional and Scholarly Publisher Clarendon Press Position Assistant Professor of Music Affiliation Assistant Professor of Music, Duke University DOI 10.1604/9780198166023 UK Release Date 1996-03-28 AU Release Date 1996-03-28 NZ Release Date 1996-03-28 We've got this

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