TY - BOOK AU - Latham,Edward David AU - Project Muse TI - Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas SN - 9781574413717 AV - MT95 PY - 2012/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project MUSE KW - Operas KW - Analysis, appreciation N1 - 1 (pages 193-210) and index; Tonality as drama: an introduction-- --; Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives-- --; Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama-- --; The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) ; --; The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) ; --; The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) ; --; The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954) UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ciu.edu?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/5458/ ER -