Chaos
and Dancing Star : Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy
by Roy Pateman
(Paperback)
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
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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)
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)
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;
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)
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)
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)
Special Order
Wagner
Without Fear : Learning to Love-And Even Enjoy-Opera's Most Demanding Genius
by William Berger
(Paperback)
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 )
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)
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