Author: Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Wagner and His Work the Story of His Life with Critical Comments
Author: Wagner and His Work the Story of His Life
Author: Wagner and His Works
Author: Henry Theophilus FinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Wagner and His Works
Author: Henry T. FinckWagner and His Works: The Story of His Life with Critical Comments (Volume Two)
Author: Henry Theophilus FinckPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 1410216284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
A lively and provocative study of the great composer and his works. Mr. Finck's established reputation as a musical scholar, thorough familiarity with Wagner literature, and interesting style, give his book a marked and permanent value. It is the result of many years' special study, and is both a full review of Wagner's life, the dramatic episodes of which are treated with unusual fullness, and a summary and critical analysis of the musical and poetic contents of his writings, rich in anecdote and apposite quotation. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and the Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.
The Trouble with Wagner
Author: Michael P. SteinbergPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659422X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P. Steinberg combines a close analysis of Wagnerian music drama with a personal account of his work as a dramaturg on the bicentennial production of The Ring of the Nibelung for the Teatro alla Scala Milan and the Berlin State Opera. Steinberg shows how Wagner uses the power of a modern mythology to heighten music’s claims to knowledge, thereby fusing not only art and politics, but truth and lies as well. Rather than attempting to separate value and violence, or “the good from the bad,” as much Wagner scholarship as well as popular writing have tended to do, Steinberg proposes that we confront this paradox and look to the capacity of the stage to explore its depths and implications. Drawing on decades of engagement with Wagner and of experience teaching opera across disciplines, The Trouble with Wagner is packed with novel insights for experts and interested readers alike.
Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois RichmondPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147661735X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Siegfried
Author: Richard WagnerPublisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714545066
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Wagner wanted Siegfried, the third music drama in The Ring of the Nibelung, to be the most popular of the cycle. Despite its many beautiful and dramatic scenes, it has not fulfilled its composer's aspiration: Professor Ulrich Weisstein examines why. Professor Anthony Newcomb contributes a detailed analysis of Wagner's leitmotifs and the different purposes they fulfil. Derrick Puffett discusses how Wagner composed Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg in the eight-year hiatus between his beginning and completion of Siegfried's second act. The thematic guide complements those found in the other Opera Guides to The Ring Cycle.Contents: Educating Siegfried, Ulrich Weisstein; 'Siegfried': The Music, Anthony Newcomb; 'Siegfried' in the Context of Wagner's Operatic Writing, Derrick Puffett; Siegfried: Poem by Richard Wagner; Siegfried: English translation by Andrew Porter
The Craftsman
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.
Brunhilda and the Ring
Author: Jorge LujnPublisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 0888999240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Retells Wagner's "Ring Cycle" and reveals the true hero of these ancient and powerful myths--Brunhilda, who redeems Siegfried and manages to remain strong despite the evil around her.