Author : Arthur Groos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521431387
Seven leading international writers discuss the genesis, libretto and music, and performance and reception history of Wagner's Tristan.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2012-04-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486172406
The legendary love story is presented in full orchestral score with complete instrumentation. Commentary by Felix Mottl, great Wagnerian conductor and scholar. Reprinted authoritative edition prepared by C. F. Peters, Leipzig, ca. 1910.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth M. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 019092344X
How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic Harmony yields a new theory of how chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of the psyche found in Schopenhauer, Freud, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. Smith extends this mode of enquiry into sophisticated music theory, while exploring philosophically engaged European and American composers such as Richard Strauss, Alexander Skryabin, Josef Suk, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic and dissonant surfaces. From the obsession with death and mourning in Suk's asrael Symphony to an exploration of "perversion" in Strauss's elektra; from the Sufi mysticism of Szymanowski's Song of the Night to the failed fantasy of the American dream in Copland's The Tender Land, Desire in Chromatic Harmony cuts a path through the dense forests of chromatic complexity, revealing the psychological make-up of post-Wagnerian psychodynamic music.
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781507537497
Title: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 Composer: Richard Wagner Original Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel The complete vocal score to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, with German and English text, as originally published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1882. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.
Author : Peter Bassett
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781862547285
To coincide with West Australian Opera's performances of Tristan und Isolde in November 2006, Peter Bassett has undertaken a textual translation of and commentary on Wagner's most radical and influential work.
Author : Adrian Daub
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 022608227X
Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century’s most influential operas—and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing career, Wagner also composed volumes of essays and pamphlets, some on topics seemingly quite distant from the opera house. His influential concept of Gesamtkunstwerk—the “total work of art”—famously and controversially offered a way to unify the different media of an opera into a coherent whole. Less well known, however, are Wagner’s strange theories on sexuality—like his ideas about erotic acoustics and the metaphysics of sexual difference. Drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, and other emerging fields of study that informed Wagner’s thinking, Adrian Daub traces the dual influence of Gesamtkunstwerk and eroticism from their classic expressions in Tristan und Isolde into the work of the generation of composers that followed, including Zemlinsky, d’Albert, Schreker, and Strauss. For decades after Wagner’s death, Daub writes, these composers continued to grapple with his ideas and with his overwhelming legacy, trying in vain to write their way out from Tristan’s shadow.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199986983
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music, they have denounced the drama as a "mere trifle"--a rendering of Wagner's forbidden love for Matilde Wesendonck, the wife of a banker who supported him during his exile in Switzerland. Death-Devoted Heart explodes this established interpretation, proving the drama to be more than just a sublimation of the composer's love for Wesendonck or a wistful romantic dream. Scruton boldly attests that Tristan and Isolde has profound religious meaning and remains as relevant today as it was to Wagner's contemporaries. He also offers keen insight into the nature of erotic love, the sacred qualities of human passion, and the peculiar place of the erotic in our culture. His argument touches on the nature of tragedy, the significance of ritual sacrifice, and the meaning of redemption, providing a fresh interpretation of Wagner's masterpiece. Roger Scruton has written an original and provocative account of Wagner's music drama, which blends philosophy, criticism, and musicology in order to show the work's importance in the twenty-first century.
