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Elektra in Full Score

Elektra in Full Score

Strauss, Richard

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Series: Dover Opera Scores

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ISBN10: 0486265382
ISBN13: 9780486265384
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jan 1 1991
Pages: 384
Weight: 2.35
Height: 0.81 Width: 9.39 Depth: 12.15
Language: English

Composed in 1906-1908 to a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elektra scandalized audiences of the day with its horrific retelling of the Greek story and its startling level of dissonance. Today, with the shock of the new worn off and the once-fearful dissonance now widely accepted, the score can be more easily appreciated for its extravagant invention of musical ideas and virtuosic use of instrumental sonorities to characterize both persons and actions. Further, in his use of a single germinal chord which pervades the entire score, Strauss anticipated a technique used by later 20th-century composers.

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