- Kaplan, Richard Andrew. “The Musical Language of Elektra: A Study in
Chromatic Harmony.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Michigan, 1985. 190p. - Hawkins, Jocelyn Hunter. “Hofmannsthal’s Elektra: The Play and the Opera.”
Ph.D. diss., Indiana U., 1974. 326p. - McDonald, Lawrence Francis. “Compositional Procedures in Richard Strauss’
Elektra.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Michigan, 1976. 196p. - Dinerstein, Norman Myron. “Polychordality in Salomeand Elektra: A Study
of the Application of Reinterpretation Technique.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton U., - 170p.
- Adams, Nancy Ruth. “Elektraas Opera and Drama.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Penn-
sylvania, 1989. 312p.
See also #1694.
Feuersnot
- Morris, Christopher. “What the Conductor Saw: Sex, Fantasy, and the Orches-
tra in Strauss’s Feuersnot.” Journal of Musicological Research16–2 (1996):
83–110.
The noteworthy segment in the second opera (1901) by Strauss is an offstage
love scene, in which a “combination of orchestral music and stage lighting rep-
resent a sexual encounter between characters discreetly silenced and hidden
from view.” Critics objected to the verisimilitude achieved. Morris analyzes all
the elements to explain “how this libidinal exchange [is] conveyed in music.”
[A similar instance in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbethhas already been cited
(1669)]. Also a general plot and musical study of the work.
Die Frau ohne Schatten
- Konrad, Claudia. “Die Frau ohne Schattenvon Richard Strauss: Studien zur
Rezeptionsgeschichte.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Hamburg, 1987. - Konrad, Claudia. “Die Frau ohne Schatten” von Hugo von Hoffmansthal und
Richard Strauss: Studien zur Genese, zum Textbuch, und zur Rezeptions-
geschichte.Hamburger Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft, 37. Hamburg: K. D.
Wagner, 1988. vi, 393p. ISBN 3-889-7904-02. ML423 .H715 K82.
Sources, fairy opera in general, place of this one in the work of Hoffmansthal,
premiere reception and performance history, in cultural and political context.
Foreign press reactions are of interest. Footnotes, bibliography of about 600
items, no index. - Knaus, Jakob. Hofmannsthals Weg zur Oper “Die Frau ohne Schatten.”
Berlin: de Gruyter, 1971. 151p. ISBN 3-11-001865-9. ML423 .H74 K6.
Originally the author’s dissertation (Zurich, 1971). A detailed study of the
play and libretto, interactions between author and composer (many letters),
the compositional process. Long footnotes, musical examples. Other operas
are considered as well. Bibliography of about 120 entries, name index.
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