Her single-mindedness leads to her ruin in this opera and a minor second anticipates her seeing blood and is known as the blood motif.
It is thought that the final transformation of the seventh chord evident in much of the composer's other work, symbolizing his obsession with Stefi Geyer, represents in this work a change from the grotesque as in the Fourteenth Bagatelle  to the violent as portrayed by the willful protagonist. Her single-mindedness leads to her ruin in this opera and a minor second anticipates her seeing blood and is known as the blood motif. As the newlywed pushes through the piece and through each door she chances upon a garden, a torture chamber, a treasury and a "lake of tears," her husband begs her not open the seventh door, but Judith does and is resigned to the fate that his three previous wives have endured. For 10 points, name this one act opera by Bela Bartok about the title prince's residence.
It is thought that the final transformation of the seventh chord evident in much of the composer's other work, symbolizing his obsession with Stefi Geyer, represents in this work a change from the grotesque as in the Fourteenth Bagatelle  to the violent as portrayed by the willful protagonist.
Duke Bluebeard's Castle