Musical Humor and Antonín Dvořák's Comic Operas

Antonìn Dvorák 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. Dvorák 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 Dvorák's works in this genre, revealing a significantly under-appreciated side of the composer's immense creative skills.

ISBN:	9783631874783
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:	Peter Lang Edition
Published date:	31 May 2022
DEWEY:	782.1092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	384
Weight:	566g
Height:	210mm
Width:	148mm
Spine width:	22mm

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