Download or read book Wagner s Dramas and Greek Tragedy written by Pearl Cleveland Wilson and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1919 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wagner s Dramas and Greek Tragedy written by Pearl Cleveland Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wagner's Dramas and Greek Tragedy Aristotle's definition has often served as a starting-point for analyses of tragedy. But melody, which he calls the greatest of the embellishments, has long been separated from drama, and subject and style have changed with form. Poets have not remained musicians, as they were in ancient Greece, but one musician of modern times has written great tragedies. Richard Wagner composed ten dramas that are performed by opera companies, though they are almost as far from being operas as they are from being plays. To find as indissoluble a union of music and words in drama, we must go back to the choral odes of Attic tragedy. But while Greek tragedies are dramatic poems, 4th their range of expression extended by music, Wagner's works are dramatic symphonies, with their meaning made clear by words. It is not possible to compare them without being conscious, at every step, of this fundamental difference. Allowing for it, however, we find many points of resemblance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Studies in the Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wagner s Dramas and Greek Tragedy by Pearl Cleveland Wilson Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy Columbia University written by Pearl Cleveland Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Wagnerian Drama written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MR. KREHBIEL is a critic whose honest, painstaking work it is impossible not to respect. He has read much that relates to the subject of this book, for there is evidence that Mr. Krehbiel has made extensive studies in the very wide field of German Wagner literature.... His work is a mirror in which (very pleasantly, however) the work of many foreign thinkers on the Wagnerian music-drama is reflected. One of these thinkers—the chief one, to the mind of the writer of this review—was Wagner himself. Like Wagner, Mr. Krehbiel goes back, in tracing the origin of the music-drama, to the Greek theater, and also to the music drama of the Florentine reformers of the seventeenth century, who had the same theory as Wagner — that music should faithfully reproduce the spirit of the words to which it is written. Whoever is interested in this highly important phase of musical development will find it very ably treated in Rockstro's article on the Opera, in Grove's Dictionary. "Mr. Krehbiel's general discussion of leading motives, or typical phrases, as he calls them (leit-motifen they are called in German, and leading motives will probably remain the most acceptable translation), is capital, and is enforced by several admirably selected examples. He points out that leading motives are musical symbols, not labels, and illustrates their dramatic value by showing how the merry call which Siegfried, in the music drama of that title, blows upon his horn is, in the "Dusk of the Gods," transformed into the stately measures which are heard when Siegfried sets out in quest of adventure, and finally swells to a thrilling paean at the climax of the Death March. "This general discussion of Wagnerian methods is followed by analyses of Wagner's music-dramas. Herein Mr. Krehbiel quotes some of the principal leading motives, and though he does not give them their generally accepted titles, he paraphrases these in describing their characteristics. Mr. Krehbiel has made careful investigations into the sources from which Wagner drew the material for his plots, and has, after the manner of a German monographist, charged his chapters on the music-dramas with an almost embarrassing amount of such matter. Most interesting, however, is his account of the old Mastersingers, and his quotation from a poem written by the veritable Hans Sachs and set to music by the veritable Pogner. It would perhaps have been even more interesting had Mr. Krehbiel quoted from Wagenseil's book on the Mastersingers, from which he evidently gathered much of his material, the two master-tones on which Wagner built two of the most important motives in his music-drama—the Mastersingers' March and the Art Brotherhood." —New Outlook, Volume 46
Download or read book Wagner On Music And Drama written by Albert Goldman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1988-03-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Athena Sings written by M. Owen Lee and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Wagner's knowledge of and passion for Greek drama was so profound that for Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner was Aeschylus come alive again. Surprisingly little has been written about the pervasive influence of classical Greece on the quintessentially German master. In this elegant and masterfully argued book, renowned opera critic Father Owen Lee describes for the contemporary reader what it might have been like to witness a dramatic performance of Aeschylus in the theatre of Dionysus in Athens in the fifth century B.C. something that Wagner himself undertook to do on several occasions, imagining a performance of The Oresteia in his mind, reading it aloud to his friends, providing his own commentary, and relating the Greek classic drama to his own romantic view. Father Lee also uses Wagner's writings on Greece and entries from his wife's diaries to cast new light on Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, Parsifal, and especially the mighty Ring cycle, where Wagner made extensive use of Greek elements to give structural unity and dramatic credibility to his Nordic and Germanic myths. No opera fan, argues Father Lee, can really understand Wagner saving Brünhilde without knowing the Athena who, in Greek drama, first brought justice to Athens. Written with a clarity and depth of knowledge that have characterized all Father Lee's books on the classics of Greece and Rome and made his six other volumes of opera bestsellers, Athena Sings traces the profound influence an influence few music lovers are aware of that Greek theatre and culture had on the most German of composers and his revolutionary musical dramas.
Download or read book Opera and Drama written by Richard Wagner and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Wagner s Ring Cycle and the Greeks written by Daniel H. Foster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evolutionary paradigm to shape the music and the libretto of the Ring cycle. Foster describes how each of the Ring's operas represents a particular phase of Greek poetic and political development: Das Rheingold and Die Walküre create epic national identity in its earlier and later stages respectively; Siegfried expresses lyric personal identity; and Götterdämmerung destructively culminates with a tragi-comedy about civic identity. This study sees the Greeks through the lens of those scholars whose work influenced Wagner most, focusing on epic, lyric, and comedy, as well as Greek tragedy. Most significantly, the book interrogates the ways in which Wagner uses Greek aesthetics to further his own ideological goals.
