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38268	Gilman, Lawrence	Aspects of Modern Opera: Estimates and Inquiries			.txt	text/plain	19686	689	55	composer of imaginative orchestral works and of chamber music, he is drama at the expense of the music, but--as was the case with Wagner In choosing the subject for this music-drama, Puccini set himself a effective dramas--is their ideal suitability for musical translation. possible musical means that will appropriately express it: to-day we it be cheerfully owned, to the glory of musical art--through Wagner's Wagner's later music-dramas to which one can point, by reason of their to write dramatic music for single voices and instruments with nothing _Mélisande_?--a scene for which Debussy has written music of almost characters in music-drama, is "almost anti-lyric," he speaks with possible in music-drama a use of the voice which permits of an music-dramas of Wagner a frankness of melody in the vocal writing music-drama into which Debussy has transformed Maeterlinck's play For in the musical setting of Debussy, Maeterlinck's drama has found	./cache/38268.txt	./txt/38268.txt