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Musical Humor and AntonÃn Dvořák's Comic Operas
Hardcover
Series: Eastern European Studies in Musicology, Book 23
ISBN13: 9783631874783
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: May 31 2022
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
AntonÃn Dvořák was a clever and highly communicative humorist and musical dramatist. His masterful compositional strategies underscore, heighten, and construct sonic humor in his six (!!) comic operas. He crafts musical slapstick, satire, parody, and merriment using sudden breaks in rhythmic patterns, explosive harmonic shifts, excessive repetition, and startling pauses, as well as incongruous tempi, dynamics, range, and instrumentation. Dvořák also gives the orchestra its own voice, breaking the metaphorical fourth wall to reveal humor outside of the characters' awareness. Narrative description and comprehensive music examples guide the reader through all six of Dvořák's works in this genre, revealing a significantly under-appreciated side of the composer's immense creative skills.
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