Love and Friendship. (Original composition)

Title: Love and Friendship. (Original composition)
Identifier: AAI9326793
identifier: 9326793
Creator: O'Leary, Stephen John.
Contributor: Adviser: David Olan
Date: 1993
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Music | Literature, English
Abstract: The libretto of the chamber opera "Love and Friendship" is based on the juvenilia of Jane Austen--burlesques filled with manic energy and occasionally cruel wit. These stories present characters that work both as simple caricatures of Eighteenth-Century literary convention and as monsters of self-indulgence and deluded rationalization.;As an analogy to the psychotically sentimental universe of Laura, Edward, Sophia, and Augustus, the music operates both as a distortion of tonality and as a self-contained system. Most of the musical structure is generated by sonorities that can be classified under the normal forms (0167), (0347), and (0134679T).;"Love and Friendship" consists of nine sections (Overture, Prologue, Scenes 1-6, and Epilogue) and is scored for SATB quartet, two oboes, two bassoons, guitar, and piano. Its duration is approximately 65 minutes.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.