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(0)Elliott Antokoletz
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"Two early twentieth-century operas - Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande (1902) and Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) - transformed the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language. This new language was based almost exclusively on interactions between folk modalities and their more abstract symmetrical transformations. Elliott Antokoletz reveals not only the new musical language of these operas but also the way in which they...
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"The memoirs of the Russian-born German composer Georg von Albrecht (born in Kasan, Russia, 1891, and died in Heidelberg, Germany, 1976) are important documents of twentieth-century musical history. Dictated to his son, Michael von Albrecht, and first published in German, von Albrecht's autobiography recounts his dramatic experiences during the 1917 Russian revolution and the Nazi terror.
"His reports of encounters with such composers as Taneyev,...