Richard Wagner's Music Dramas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Richard Wagner's Music Dramas write by Carl Dahlhaus. This book was released on 1992-03-26. Richard Wagner's Music Dramas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Previous studies of Wagner's operas have tended to approach the works as chunks of autobiography, philosophical speculations or historical-political comments on the age in which they were written. Professor Dahlhaus dissociated himself from all such ventures. His aim is to reveal, by careful analysis of the works from Der fliegende Hollander to Parsifal, the dominant features of 'music drama' and how Wagner achieves such profound, unified effects. Professor Dahlhaus cites music examples only when they are germane to his argument and requires from his readers no more than a limited amount of technical musical knowledge. This is not, therefore, an exclusively specialist study. Rather it will help the enthusiastic beginner to come to terms with these great works of art as well as offering many valuable insights to the experienced Wagnerian. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of music history, theory, opera and philosophy.
The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth
The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth write by Albert Lavignac. This book was released on 1898. The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Selections from the Music Dramas of Richard Wagner
Selections from the Music Dramas of Richard Wagner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selections from the Music Dramas of Richard Wagner write by Richard Wagner. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Selections from the Music Dramas of Richard Wagner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Drama and the World of Richard Wagner
Drama and the World of Richard Wagner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drama and the World of Richard Wagner write by Dieter Borchmeyer. This book was released on 2003-11-30. Drama and the World of Richard Wagner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Wagner continues to be the most controversial artist in history, a perpetually troubling figure in our cultural consciousness. The unceasing debate over his works and their impact--for and against--is one reason why there has been no genuinely comprehensive modern account of his musical dramas until now. Dieter Borchmeyer's book is the first to present an overall picture of these musical dramas from the standpoint of literary and theatrical history. It extends from the composer's early works--still largely ignored--to the Ring Cycle and Parsifal, and includes Wagner's unfinished works and operas he never set to music. Through lively prose, we come to see Wagner as a librettist--and as a man of letters--rather than primarily as musical composer. Borchmeyer uncovers a vast field of cultural and historical cross-references in Wagner's works. In the first part of the book, he sets out in search of the various archetypal scenes, opening up the composer's dramatic workshop to the reader. He covers all of Wagner's operas, from early juvenilia to the canonical later works. The second part examines Wagner in relation to political figures including King Ludwig II and Bismarck, and, importantly, in light of critical reactions by literary giants--Thomas Mann, whom Borchmeyer calls "a guiding light in this exploration of the fields that Wagner tilled," and Nietzsche, whose appeal to "philology" is a key source of inspiration in attempts to grapple with Wagner's works. For more than twenty years, Borchmeyer has placed his scholarship at the service of the famed Bayreuth Festival. With this volume, he gives us a summation of decades of engagement with the phenomenon of Wagner and, at the same time, the result of an abiding critical passion for his works.
Opera and Drama
Opera and Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera and Drama write by Richard Wagner. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Opera and Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
