“Life is a woman”: Gender, sex and sexuality in Bartók's The Wooden Prince
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Cm:
“Life is a woman”: Gender, sex and sexuality in Bartók's The Wooden Prince
Ltrehoz:
Kilpatrick, Stephen
Kiad:
Akadémiai Kiadó, co-published with Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V.
Dtum:
2007
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Tma:
M1 Music / zene
M10 Theory and philosophy of music / zeneelmélet, muzikológia
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Abstract
This paper is a reassessment of Béla Bartók's The Wooden Prince, in light of the attitudes and beliefs of Bartók's contemporaries, in particular György Lukács, and the Ballet's librettist, Béla Balázs. Particular emphasis is given to Lukács's relationship with Irma Seidler and Balázs through examination of Lukács's essay, “Søren Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen” — a source overlooked in previous studies of this work. After analysing the views of Bartók's milieu regarding love and relationships, I conclude that the ballet's message is much more pessimistic than previously thought. This study places The Wooden Prince, which has been compared unfavourably with Bartók's other two stage works, alongside Duke Bluebeard's Castle as its companion in both musical and intellectual depth, and confirms Kodály's view that the ballet is the Allegro which balances the “desolate Adagio of the opera.”
Nyelv:
magyar
Tpus:
Article
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Formtum:
text
Azonost:
Kilpatrick, Stephen (2007) “Life is a woman”: Gender, sex and sexuality in Bartók's The Wooden Prince. Studia Musicologica, 48 (1-2). pp. 163-170. ISSN 1788-6244
Kapcsolat:
https://doi.org/10.1556/SMus.48.2007.1-2.10
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