Wagner's Melodies - 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 Wagner's Melodies write by David Trippett. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Wagner's Melodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wagner's Melodies places the composer's ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.
Richard Wagner's Music Dramas
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.
Wagnerism
Wagnerism - 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 Wagnerism write by Alex Ross. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Wagnerism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.
Studies in Modern Music: Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner
Studies in Modern Music: Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, 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 Studies in Modern Music: Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner write by William Henry Hadow. This book was released on 1911. Studies in Modern Music: Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Darker Side of Genius
The Darker Side of Genius - 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 Darker Side of Genius write by Jacob Katz. This book was released on 1986. The Darker Side of Genius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Wagner's anti-Semitism considered in the context of his time, place, and aspirations rather than in relation to his later appropriation by the Nazis.
