Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok

Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartók explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy''s Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) and Bartók''s Duke Bluebeard''s Castle (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language. It also looks at how this language reflects the psychodramatic symbolism of the Franco-Bel...