"Wagner's ""Das Rheingold"""
Author:   Warren Darcy
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198162667


Pages:   259
Publication Date:   01 November 1993
Format:   Hardback
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"Wagner's ""Das Rheingold"""


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"This text traces the compositional genesis of Richard Wagner's ""Das Rheingold"", the first opera of his operatic tetralogy ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"". It was a milestone in the composer's output and in the history of music in general. It marked Wagner's return to operatic composition after a hiatus of five years, and signified his definitive break with earlier operatic conventions. It also represents a reconsideration of the whole question of dramatic-musical form and the role of tonality in articulating this form. The book also attempts a comprehensive formal and tonal analysis of the piece. It is based upon Wagner's textual and musical manuscripts with up-to-date techniques. Darcy discusses the formal, harmonic and linear structure of the work. In so doing, he challenges a number of contemporary views about the opera, including those of Curt von Westernhagen and Carl Dahlhaus."

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Author:   Warren Darcy
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.606kg
ISBN:  

9780198162667


ISBN 10:   0198162669
Pages:   259
Publication Date:   01 November 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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"Structural outline of ""Das Rheingold""; preliminaries; the documentary sources; the forging of the text; analytical positions; the opera as a whole; ""creation ex nihilo"" - the prelude; scene one; first transformation and scene two; second transformation and scene three; third transformation and scene four. Appendices: transcriptions from Wagner's complete draft; works cited."

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