Chaos
and Dancing Star : Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy
by Roy Pateman
(Paperback - January 2002)
Aspects
of Wagner
by Bryan Magee
(Paperback - October 1988)
Das
Rheingold in Full Score
by Richard Wagner
Book Description: Hard-to-find complete score of first installment
of celebrated Ring Cycle encapsulates Wagner’s greatest achievements
in shortest, most accessible form. Reproduced in a clear, modern engraving
with large, legible notation from authoritative B. Schott’s edition.
Virtually nowhere else will you find this great masterpiece in such an
eminently usable format. New translation of German frontmatter.
(Paperback - September 1985)
Finding
an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring
by Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht
Book Description: Few musical works loom as large in Western culture
as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelungs. In Finding an Ending,
two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an
illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on
its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings
in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the reader into the
heart of Wagner's Ring, drawing out the philosophical and human significance
of the text and the music. They show how different forms of love, freedom,
heroism, authority, and judgment are explored and tested as it unfolds.
As they journey across its sweeping musical-dramatic landscape, Kitcher
and Schacht lead us to the central concern of the Ring--the problem of
endowing life with genuine significance that can be enhanced rather than
negated by its ending, if the right sort of ending can be found. The drama
originates in Wotan's quest for a transformation of the primordial state
of things into a world in which life can be lived more meaningfully. The
authors trace the evolution of Wotan's efforts, the intricate problems
he confronts, and his failures and defeats. But while the problem Wotan
poses for himself proves to be insoluble as he conceives of it, they suggest
that his very efforts and failures set the stage for the transformation
of his problem, and for the only sort of resolution of it that may be humanly
possible--to which it is not Siegfried but rather Brunnhilde who shows
the way. The Ring's ending, with its passing of the gods above and destruction
of the world below, might seem to be devastating; but Kitcher and Schacht
see a kind of meaning in and through the ending revealed to us that is
profoundly affirmative, and that has perhaps never been so powerfully and
so beautifully expressed.
Hardcover from Oxford University Press
Book Published: March, 2004 |
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The
Flying Dutchman in Full Score
by Richard Wagner
(Paperback - May 1988)
The
Flying Dutchman (The Black Dog Opera Library)
by Robert Levine, Richard Wagner
(Hardcover - May 2002)
Gotterdammerung
(Twilight of the Gods) : In Full Score
by Richard Wagner
(Paperback - February 1982)
Parsifal:
The Finding of Christ Through Art or Richard Wagner As Theologian
by Albert Ross Parsons
(Paperback - October 1998)
Parsifal
on Record: A Discography of Complete Recordings, Selections, and Excerpts
of Wagner's Music Drama (Discographies, No 48)
by Jonathan Brown (Compiler)
(Hardcover - August 1992)
Parsifal
in Full Score
by Richard Wagner
(Paperback - September 1986)
Richard
Wagner's the Ring of the Nibelung
by Gil Kane (Illustrator), et al
Paperback: 200 pages
Express; ISBN: 0932956203; (May 1997)
Richard
Wagner, Parsifal
by Lucy Beckett
(Paperback - December 1988)
Richard
Wagner : Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Gotterdammerung, Siegfried, Die Walkure,
Das Rheingold
by Rudolph Sabor, Richard Wagner
(Paperback - October 1997)
Ring
of the Nibelung
by Richard Wagner, Andrew Porter (Translator)
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 7.70 x 5.00
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (March 1983)
ISBN: 0393008673
Siegfried
in Full Score
by Richard Wagner
Book Description: The third opera in Wagner’s monumental tetralogy,
Der Ring des Nibelungen, is reproduced here, complete and unabridged, from
the first edition (1876). Wagner enthusiasts, opera lovers and musicians
will appreciate this affordable edition of an influential Romantic-era
masterpiece.
(Paperback - April 1983)
Tannhauser
in Full Score
by Richard Wagner
(Paperback - June 1984)
Richard
Wagner : Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Gotterdammerung, Siegfried, Die Walkure,
Das Rheingold
by Rudolph Sabor, Richard Wagner
(Paperback - October 1997)
Tristan
und Isolde on Record: A Comprehensive Discography of Wagner's Music Drama
with a Critical Introduction to the Recordings (Discographies)
by Jonathan Brown
(Library Binding - June 2000)
Special Order
Wagner
Without Fear : Learning to Love-And Even Enjoy-Opera's Most Demanding Genius
by William Berger
(Paperback - October 1998)
The
Wagner Operas
by Ernest Newman
Ernest Newman's study of the major Wagner operas (from Der fliegende
Holländer onwards) was originally published in 1949 and rapidly achieved
the status of a classic opera text, which it retains to this day. There
are plenty of other, differing treatments of the stories of the operas,
but none as detailed or as dramatically aware as Newman's magisterial volume.
Of course, the reprint does not contain information about the composer
and his works that would later come to light, nor does it traffic in current
modes of thought about the operas (in some cases, thankfully). What Newman
does is begin with a history of the myth or the tales on which each opera
is based, widening that out to a discussion of Wagner's interest in the
story, his involvement with its genesis, and an account of how the work
in question was created and first produced. Since in some cases this gestation
took years, Newman's clear explication does much to lift the mists surrounding
even the simplest of Wagner's operas. He then discusses each opera in detail.
The plethora of musical examples and Newman's understanding of Wagner's
use of the leitmotif ensure that his readings are responsive both to the
histrionic and musical aspects of the stories.
Reading the details of the often complex backgrounds of the operas,
as well as what goes on in the opera itself (the discussion of Die Meistersinger
von Nürnberg alone runs to more than 110 pages of text), should immeasurably
enrich the listener's opera-going experience, even in this age of the surtitle.
And an appreciation of the range and cogency of Wagner's musical and dramatic
genius, which this book offers, will serve to balance the unflattering
portrait of Wagner the human being that dominates today's thinking about
the Master. --Patrick J. Smith - Amazon.com
Paperback: 746 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.53 x
9.23 x 6.10
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; Reprint edition (September
23, 1991)
ISBN: 0691027161
Wagner
and Russia (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)
by Rosamund Bartlett
Hardcover: 405 pages
Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521440718; (February
1995)
Wagner
Handbook
by Richard Wagner (Editor), et al
(Hardcover - October 1992)
Wagner's Hitler : The Prophet and His Disciple
by Joachim Kohler, Ronald Taylor (Translator)
(Hardcover - January 2000)
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