Richard Wagner, the Synthesis of the Arts, , by Jack M. Stein, ...
Author : Jack M. Stein
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Jack M. Stein
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 1960
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Author : Jack Stein
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Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1973
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ISBN : 9780837168067
Author : Jack Madison Stein
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Jack M. Stein
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780353350069
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Author : Jack Madison Stein
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Page : 229 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Jack M. Stein
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Page : 229 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
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ISBN : 9780758106209
Author : Dhira B. Mahoney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131794724X
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Raymond Furness
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780232233
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 : Patrick Carnegy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300106954
Chapitre 6, p. 175-207, consacré à Adolphe Appia.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1468315501
“Nothing in opera is grander than The Ring, no work more suited to the deep reading the writer gives here.” —Opera News Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner’s masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger Scruton brings to it in this inspiring account. The Ring of Truth is an exploration of the drama, music, symbolism, and philosophy of The Ring from a writer whose knowledge and understanding of the Western musical tradition are the equal of his capacities as a philosopher. Scruton shows how, through musical connections and brilliant dramatic strokes, Wagner is able to express truths about the human condition which few other creative artists have been able to convey so convincingly. For Wagner, writes Scruton, the task of art is to “show us freedom in its immediate, contingent, human form, reminding us of what it means to us. Even if we live in a world from which gods and heroes have disappeared we can, by imagining them, dramatize the deep truths of our condition and renew our faith in what we are.” Love, death, sacrifice and the liberation that we win through sacrifice—these are the great themes of The Ring, as they are of this book. Scruton’s passionate and moving interpretation allows us to understand more fully than ever how Wagner conveys his ideas about who we are, and why TheRing continues to be such a hypnotically absorbing work. “Scruton’s presentation is grounded throughout in a deep understanding of the culture of Wagner’s era . . . the writing is clear and persuasive.” —Library Journal (starred review) “A fascinating and valuable study.” —Sunday Times