Bluebeard's Castle
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| + | "We open the successive doors in [[Bluebeard's castle]] because "they are there," because each leads to the next by a logic of intensification which is that of the mind's own awareness of being"-- ''[[In Bluebeard's Castle]]'' (1971) by George Steiner | ||
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| - | *[[George Antheil]] | + | '''''Duke Bluebeard's Castle''''' is a one-act opera by [[Hungary|Hungarian]] composer [[Béla Bartók]]. The libretto was written by [[Béla Balázs]], a poet and friend of the composer. It lasts only a little over an hour and there are only two singing characters onstage: Bluebeard (''{{lang|hu|Kékszakállú}}''), and his new wife Judith (''{{lang|hu|Judit}}''); the two have just eloped and Judith is coming home to Bluebeard's [[castle]] for the first time. |
| - | ::''[[Ballet mécanique]]'' | + | |
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| - | *[[Béla Bartók]] | + | |
| - | ::''[[Bluebeard's Castle]]'' ([[1911]]) | + | |
| - | ::"[[Cantata Profana]]" | + | |
| - | ::"[[Piano Concerto No. 1]]" | + | |
| - | ::"[[Piano Sonata]]" | + | |
| - | ::"[[String Quartet No. 4]]" | + | |
| - | ::"[[String Quartet No. 5]]" | + | |
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| - | *[[Alban Berg]] | + | |
| - | ::Chamber Concerto | + | |
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| - | *[[Pierre Boulez]] | + | |
| - | ::[[Le marteau sans maître]] | + | |
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| - | *[[Aaron Copland]] | + | |
| - | ::''[[Piano Variations]]'' (Jaffe, 1992) | + | |
| - | ::''[[Symphony No. 2: Short Symphony]]'' (Jaffe, 1992) | + | |
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| - | *[[Ruth Crawford-Seeger]] | + | |
| - | ::''[[String Quartet 1931]]'' | + | |
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| - | *[[Charles Ives]] | + | |
| - | ::''[[Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass., 1840-60]]'' | + | |
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| - | *[[Zoltan Kodaly]] | + | |
| - | ::''String quartet No. 1 op.2 (1909)'' | + | |
| - | ::''Piano pieces op. 3 (1909)'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7]] (1914)'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8]] (1915)'' | + | |
| - | ::''String quartet No. 2 op.10 (1916-1918)'' | + | |
| - | ::''Piano pieces op. 11 (1910-1918)'' | + | |
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| - | *[[Sergei Prokofiev]] | + | |
| - | ::''Suggestion diabolique'', Op. 4 No. 4 | + | |
| - | ::Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 | + | |
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| - | *[[Dane Rudhyar]] | + | |
| - | ::''Transmutation'' (1976) | + | |
| - | ::''Tetragrams'' (1924) | + | |
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| - | *[[Carl Ruggles]] | + | |
| - | ::''[[Angels]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Sun-treader]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Organum]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Men and Mountains]]''/''[[Men, Lilacs & Marching Mountains]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Evocations]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Exaltation]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Portals]]'' | + | |
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| - | *[[Arnold Schoenberg]] | + | |
| - | ::''[[Die glückliche Hand]]'' ([[1913]]) | + | |
| - | ::''[[Pierrot lunaire]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[String quartets (Schoenberg)|String Quartet No. 2]]'' | + | |
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| - | *[[Alexander Scriabin]] | + | |
| - | ::All works opp. 32-74 ''(1903 - 1914)'' | + | |
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| - | *[[Igor Stravinsky]] | + | |
| - | ::[[Petrushka]] ''ballet'' 1911 | + | |
| - | ::[[The Rite of Spring]] ''ballet'' 1913 | + | |
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| - | *[[Edgard Varèse]] | + | |
| - | ::''[[Offrandes]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Octandre]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Ionisation (Varèse)|Ionisation]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Intégrales]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Hyperprisme]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Déserts]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Density 21.5]]'' | + | |
| - | ::''[[Amériques]]'' | + | |
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| + | ''Bluebeard's Castle'' was composed in 1911 (with modifications made in 1912 and a new ending added in 1917) and first performed on [[May 24]], [[1918]] in [[Budapest]]. Universal published the vocal (1921) and full score (1925). The Boosey & Hawkes' full score includes only the [[German language|German]] and English singing translations while the Dover edition reproduces the Universal Edition Hungarian/German vocal score (with page numbers beginning at 1 instead of 5). A revision of the UE vocal score in 1963 added a new German translation by Wilhelm Ziegler, but seems not to have corrected any errata. | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Bluebeard]] | ||
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle is a one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. The libretto was written by Béla Balázs, a poet and friend of the composer. It lasts only a little over an hour and there are only two singing characters onstage: Bluebeard (Template:Lang), and his new wife Judith (Template:Lang); the two have just eloped and Judith is coming home to Bluebeard's castle for the first time.
Bluebeard's Castle was composed in 1911 (with modifications made in 1912 and a new ending added in 1917) and first performed on May 24, 1918 in Budapest. Universal published the vocal (1921) and full score (1925). The Boosey & Hawkes' full score includes only the German and English singing translations while the Dover edition reproduces the Universal Edition Hungarian/German vocal score (with page numbers beginning at 1 instead of 5). A revision of the UE vocal score in 1963 added a new German translation by Wilhelm Ziegler, but seems not to have corrected any errata.
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