| Elektra in Full Score Contributor(s): Strauss, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486265382 ISBN-13: 9780486265384 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1991 Annotation: One of the most often performed of Strauss' musical works, this landmark of modern opera scandalized early 20th-century audiences with its startling dissonance and unconventional harmonics. Today, it is admired for virtuosic invention of musical ideas and the use of instrumental sonorities to characterize both persons and actions. Reprinted directly from the authoritative Furstner edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Printed Music - Opera & Classical Scores - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera |
| Dewey: 782.1 |
| LCCN: 90753457 |
| Series: Dover Vocal Scores |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 9.39" W x 12.15" (2.35 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |