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Catrina Scullion, Expressionism and psychological disintegration in Schoenberg's 'Erwartung'
Volumes, pp.: 1 (51pp)
Supervisor(s): Paul McNulty
Repository (hard copy): DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama Library
General specialism: Musicology: Performance Studies
Abstract:
The aim of this MMus thesis is to discuss Arnold Schoenberg's opera Ewartung op.17 as a piece of Expressionist drama, a psycological case study and an example of modernist progress. Considered a masterpiece in atonal writing, it has been described as athematic. Through an examination of the libretto and the Freudian case studies which inspired it, I have explored the idea that despite being athematic in teh harmonic sense, the themes lie in the expressionistic interpretation of Pappenheim's text through music. I have drawn parallels between Freud and Schoenberg, both pioneers in their feilds and have concluded that more than an opera (or 'monodrama' as it is now known), 'Erwartung' is a psychodrama, chronicling the disintegration of both the Woman's mind and the tonal harmonic structure through the medium of Expressionism.
Catrina Scullion, Expressionism and psychological disintegration in Schoenberg's 'Erwartung'
Other, Dublin Institute of Technology, 2013
Volumes, pp.: 1 (51pp)
Supervisor(s): Paul McNulty
Repository (hard copy): DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama Library
General specialism: Musicology: Performance Studies
Abstract:
The aim of this MMus thesis is to discuss Arnold Schoenberg's opera Ewartung op.17 as a piece of Expressionist drama, a psycological case study and an example of modernist progress. Considered a masterpiece in atonal writing, it has been described as athematic. Through an examination of the libretto and the Freudian case studies which inspired it, I have explored the idea that despite being athematic in teh harmonic sense, the themes lie in the expressionistic interpretation of Pappenheim's text through music. I have drawn parallels between Freud and Schoenberg, both pioneers in their feilds and have concluded that more than an opera (or 'monodrama' as it is now known), 'Erwartung' is a psychodrama, chronicling the disintegration of both the Woman's mind and the tonal harmonic structure through the medium of Expressionism.
Thesis submission ID 779