Jaakkola, Beneath the Laurel Tree - Text-music relationships in Paavo Heininen’s opera Silkkirumpu, op. 45

This study deals with Paavo Heininen's opera Silkkirumpu (The Damask Drum) op. 45 (1983) and examines the narrative aspects of its text-music relationships. The research combines approaches of music analysis and literary theory. The central methods for the music analysis are Robert Morris's reductive method for showing contour similarity between musical entities, Peter Stacey's suggestions for observing the relations between text and music as well as Stacey's view of text fragmentation in...