Wagner's Mature Music-Dramas (Tristan and Isolde, the Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal) in Light of Their Allegorical Relationship to the Ring
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Academica PressISBN-13:9781680532920ISBN-10:1680532928UPC:9781680532920Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Music, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Music, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.38 inchesWeight:2.2928Product ID:SCQYR7419N
Wagner's Mature Music-Dramas (Tristan and Isolde, the Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal) in Light of Their Allegorical Relationship to the Ring
Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner's operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously attempted to assess their implications for our systematic understanding of his art. Following Heise's allegorical interpretation of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, The Wound That...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Academica PressISBN-13:9781680532920ISBN-10:1680532928UPC:9781680532920Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Music, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Music, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.38 inchesWeight:2.2928Product ID:SCQYR7419N
Paul Brian Heise has studied the works of Richard Wagner since 1971. While pursuing graduate studies in anthropology at Southern Illinois University, he developed an argument that Wagner's works could be understood as an allegory and withdrew from formal studies to devote his life to discovering and sharing his wholesale reassessment of the meaning of Wagner's dramas and their music. Heise has...
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