| Description |
xii, 232 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music; no. 41
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Preliminaries ; Reminiscence themes and leitmotivs in opera ; What Wagner had to say about themes and expressivity ; Arguments con and pro ; History of reminiscence themes and leitmotivs in opera ; Principles of musical expression ; Typologies. -- Reminiscence themes in Wagner's early operas. The first three operas ; Der fliegende Holländer ; Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg ; Lohengrin. -- Leitmotivs in Der Ring des Nibelungen. Nature and the good ; Evil ; Strength and power ; Death and fate ; Magic and the supernatural: The Misterioso ; Emotions: joy, sorrow and suffering, fear, love and passion ; Abiding love: the Gods and Volsungs ; Abiding love: Brünnhilde and Siegfried ; World inheritance ; Passion. -- Leitmotivs in Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde ; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ; Parsifal. -- Varied recapitulation and conclusion. Conventional musical types: Emotion ; Other affective musical types ; Functional types ; Literary aesthetic, and moral types ; Types from traditional (folk) music. -- Index of reminiscence themes and leitmotivs in Wagner's dramatic works. |
| Subject |
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Themes, motives.
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Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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| ISBN |
0899901182 (alk. paper) |
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