Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Das Rheingold
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Das Rheingold
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780881886658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Annotated Ring Cycle
Author: Frederick Paul WalterPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538136732
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Richard Wagner’s magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work. Frederick Paul Walter makes The Valkyrie accessible not only to scholars and opera buffs but also to fans of Tolkien, Star Wars, and Hogwarts through a dazzling new translation in lively modern English and annotations that spotlight the libretto, lyrics, and stage directions. The translation conveys Wagner’s humor, rhymes, alliterative effects, subliminal messages, and inventive tale spinning, plus it also gets the most basic ingredient right: the actual story! It highlights the motives, secrets, and plot twists—what’s really going on and what its narrative shows. The Annotated Ring Cycle includes newly created graphic-novel style illustrations that visually represent the storyline alongside full color photos of classic artwork by Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle, Aubrey Beardsley, the 1876 costume and set designs, and much more.
Das Rheingold
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Author: Warren DarcyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold is 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. Warren Darcy traces here the genesis of Das Rheingold through the various textual and musical sketches and drafts to the full score, and also develops a theoretical framework within which the opera may be meaningfully analysed. Using Wagner's manuscripts as a point of departure, 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.
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Author: Warren DarcyPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198166030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
"The most comprehensive study of the opera yet . . . Darcy uses his work on the sources to describe the compositional process of the opera, but also as a springboard for a thoroughliiihng analysis. This invaluable study necessarily grapples with minutiae and isn't for the faint-hearted".--BBC Music Magazine.
Nibelung’s Ring, The
Author: Peter BassettPublisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862546240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This accessible text guides novice and seasoned opera listeners alike through Richard Wagner's renowned Ring cycle. To aid in understanding this complex and often contradictory work, a modern-day prose translation of its four component operas is provided, as is an explanation of "The Nibelung's Ring's mythological background, Wagner's creative process, and the ideas conveyed throughout each component. A section reviewing its numerous musical themes and how they bind the cycle together musically is also included. Rarely seen lithographs by artist Hugo Braune illustrate the story.
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Author: Mark BerryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107108519
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner's Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches.
The New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
Author: Barry MillingtonPublisher:
ISBN: 0195305884
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The most controversial musical figure of the 19th century, Richard Wagner was a great literary, philosophical, and political activist. Drawing from contemporary scholarship, this biography provides different insights into his life and works.
The Rest Is Noise
Author: Alex RossPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429932880
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.