Barry Emslie

Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Emslie's study of Wagner's creativity examines the centrality of love - and its obverse, hate - to the composer's world view.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 165mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781843835363
• ISBN-10: 1843835363
• Artikelnr.: 27429811

Autorenporträt

BARRY EMSLIE is an independent scholar who lives and teaches in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction or the Uses of Love Sensuality and spirituality in the early
music dramas Music and the eternal feminine (a) Music, philosophy and
religion (b) Art and the woman The Ring of the Nibelung (a) Contradiction,
disorder and musical language (i) Plot (ii) Meaning (iii) Theory (b) The
Pagan Ring (i) Pantheism (ii) Incest Love and Death: Tristan und Isolde (a)
Schopenhauer betrayed and/or corrected (b) Identity (c) Words and Music The
Mastersingers of Nuremberg (a) Words and Music Again (b) Language and Volk
(c) Love, hate and anti-semitism Parsifal (a) Kundry (b) The Grail
Contradictions and Speculations