The progress in "The Rake's" return.
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Title
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The progress in "The Rake's" return.
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Identifier
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AAI9521257
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identifier
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9521257
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Creator
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Carter, Lee Chandler.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Joseph N. Straus
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Date
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1995
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music
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Abstract
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Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress (1948-51) represents a culmination of the composer's neo-classical period (ca. 1920 to ca. 1951), the works of which are characterized by the adaptation of tonal conventions from the distant past into a modern, post-tonal context. The stylistic variety contained in such music poses challenges that defy any single-faceted analysis. The analytical model developed in this paper incorporates tonal and post-tonal approaches, grouping Schenkerian tonal graphs, basic motivic analysis and set class theory. Such an approach offers a field on which to make connections and measure distinctions between diverse elements. More importantly, this model allows for the disjunctions, abrupt juxtapositions and discontinuity that characterizes so much of Stravinsky's music. The important dramatic effects of such stylistic play on the listener are also addressed.;The story of The Rake's Progress is itself an exploration of the issue of artistic progress and return. The choices that the opera's characters confront reflect important choices that an artist must make. Because Stravinsky subsequently abandoned neo-classicism in favor of a more uniformly modern serialism, the opera offers an insight into the choices of its own creator.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
