Wagner The Dramatist

Author : H.F. Garten
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714544825
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner the Dramatist written by H.F. Garten and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner has fascinated every generation of opera-lovers for over a century, and a mass of literature has interpreted and reinterpreted not only his character, but also the components of the great music dramas that are still some of the most captivating and complex operas in the international repertory today. In this excellent study, Garten examines the cultural and historical sources of these operas: the myths and legends that Wagner employed, in which much of his works' interest, other than the purely musical, can be found. Garten's study also shows how legends of the old Nordic gods, the troubadours and Minnesingers, the quest for the grail, as well as stories taken from folklore and history, were transformed into the theatrical mythology of Wagner's music dramas.

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824056957
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Michael Saffle and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements To Users of this Research Guide I. Introduction II. Introducing Wagner: Compendia and Other Survey Studies III. Researching Wagner: Reference Works of Various Kinds IV. The Documentary Legacy V. Wagner's Life and Character VI. Wagner as Composer: Studies in Techniques, Styles, and Influences VII. Wagner as Music-Dramatist VIII. Wagner as Instrumental and Vocal Composer and Arranger IX. Performing Wagner X. Wagner as Poet, Prose Writer, and Philosopher XI. Criticizing Wagner XII. Wagner and Culture, Past and Present XIII. After Wagner: Bayreuth, the Festivals, and Wagner's Descendents Index

Author : Adolphe Appia
Publisher : Coral Gables, Fla. : University of Miami Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and the Art of the Theatre written by Adolphe Appia and published by Coral Gables, Fla. : University of Miami Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944544
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagnerism written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192840127
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Wagner written by Bryan Magee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any other composer. Bryan Magee presents a penetrating analysis of Wagner's work, concentrating on how his sensational and deeply erotic music uniquely expresses the repressed and highly charged contents of the psyche. He examines not only Wagner's music and detailed stage directions but also the prose works in which he formulated his ideas, as well as shedding new light on his anti-semitism and the way in which the Nazis twisted his theories to suit their own purposes. Outlining the astonishing range and depth of Wagner's influence on our culture, Magee reveals how profoundly he continues to shock and inspire musicians, poets, novelists, painters, philosophers, and politicians today.

Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108073875
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wagner as Man and Artist written by Ernest Newman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1914 work, Newman attempts 'a complete and impartial psychological estimate' of a complex and frequently misinterpreted genius.

Author : Wolfgang Golther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6P/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner as Poet written by Wolfgang Golther and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond Furness
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232233
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Raymond Furness and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their complex textures, rich harmonies, and elaborate use of leitmotifs, the operas of German composer Richard Wagner (1813–83) remain some of the most influential—and contentious—in the history of the genre. But while he won renown with what he achieved on the stage, his life was marked by political exile, turbulent love affairs, and poverty. And because Wagner and his music are exceedingly intertwined with the great upheavals of his time, it is difficult to produce an impartial assessment of his output. Appearing at the bicentennial of his birth, Richard Wagner provides a clear and balanced view of both Wagner’s great successes and the controversies generated by his life and art. Using Wagner’s wide-ranging engagement with mythology as a starting point, Raymond Furness explores the composer’s music and prose writings. He delves deeply into Wagner’s essential operas, such as The Ring and Tristan and Isolde, offering fascinating insight into these works. Because the great operatic pieces often overshadow the rest of Wagner’s compositions, Furness also considers neglected fragments like “Wieland the Smith,” “The Mines at Falun,” and “The Visitors,” producing a more rounded critical picture of the composer. With up-to-date dissections of recent Bayreuth productions and a refreshingly uncluttered approach to a much-misunderstood life, Richard Wagner is an engaging look at one of music’s most beguiling figures.

Author : Franz Muncker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner : a Sketch of His Life and Works written by Franz Muncker and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gertrude Hall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533238719
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wagnerian Romances written by Gertrude Hall and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attempt has been made in the following to give an idea of the charm and interest of the original text of the Wagner operas, of Wagner's extraordinary power and fertility as a dramatist. It is not critique or commentary, it is presentation, picture, narrative; it offers nothing that is not derived directly and exclusively from the Wagner libretti and scores. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]