Author: Richard Wagner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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.
Opera and Drama
Author: Richard Wagner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297654
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
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.
Drama and Opera: German drama
Author: Alfred Bates
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Drama and Opera: Italian drama
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Modern Drama and Opera
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Drama and Opera
Author: Alfred Bates
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Drama and Opera: Spanish and Portuguese drama
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Drama and Opera: The opera
Author: Alfred Bates
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Judaism in Music and Other Essays
Author: Richard Wagner
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297661
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same intensity that characterized his music. The letters and essays collected in Judaism in Music and Other Essays were published during the 1850s and 1860s, the period when he was chiefly occupied with the creation of The Ring of the Nibelung. Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music, " which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix. Other prose pieces include "On the Performing of Tannhauser, " written while he was in political exile; "On Musical Criticism, " an appeal for a more vital approach to art undivorced from life; and "Music of the Future." This volume concludes with letters to friends about the intent and performance of his great operas; estimations of Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz, and others; and suggestions for the reform of opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. The Bison Book edition includes the full text of volume 3 of William Ashton Ellis's 1894 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297661
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality-that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to his reputation as to his genius. Often maddening, and sometimes called mad, Wagner wrote with the same intensity that characterized his music. The letters and essays collected in Judaism in Music and Other Essays were published during the 1850s and 1860s, the period when he was chiefly occupied with the creation of The Ring of the Nibelung. Highlighting this collection is the notorious 1850 article "Judaism in Music, " which caused such a firestorm that nearly twenty years later Wagner published an unapologetic appendix. Other prose pieces include "On the Performing of Tannhauser, " written while he was in political exile; "On Musical Criticism, " an appeal for a more vital approach to art undivorced from life; and "Music of the Future." This volume concludes with letters to friends about the intent and performance of his great operas; estimations of Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck, Berlioz, and others; and suggestions for the reform of opera houses in Vienna, Paris, and Zurich. The Bison Book edition includes the full text of volume 3 of William Ashton Ellis's 1894 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Opera as Drama
Author: Joseph Kerman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520246928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Focusing on operatic criticism, this work is of interest to students and lovers of opera.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520246928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Focusing on operatic criticism, this work is of interest to students and lovers of opera.
Drama and Opera: German drama
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
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