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Tonality as drama: an introduction
Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives
Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama
The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911)
The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935)
The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947)
The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).
Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives
Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama
The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911)
The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935)
The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947)
The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).