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Author : Lee McAulay
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244255202
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (442 download)
Download or read book The Last Rhinemaiden written by Lee McAulay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545112
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Das Rhinegold/The Rhine Gold written by Richard Wagner and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Rheingold, the opening of Wagner's four-part The Ring of the Nibelung, stands out as more genteel and picturesque than the others. But it immediately establishes the huge scale of the overall work, and the extraordinary musical language that will be displayed throughout. It is a miracle of musical history that Wagner's 1850 conception could be brought to completion, in an organic whole, some twenty-five years later. Stewart Spencer discusses the way in which Wagner fuses genuine mythology with his own invention and John Deathridge places the opera in the context of The Ring and its century.Contents: The Beginning of 'The Ring', John Deathridge; 'The Rhinegold' - The Music, Roger North; Language and Sources of 'The Ring', Stewart Spencer; Das Rheingold: Poem by Richard Wagner; The Rhinegold: English translation by Andrew Porter
Author : Franklin P. Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Leit-motives of Der Ring Des Nibelungen written by Franklin P. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Richard Wagner written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Winder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714614
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Lotharingia written by Simon Winder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Germania and Danubia, the third installment in Simon Winder’s personal history of Europe In 843 AD, the three surviving grandsons of the great emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited the area we now know as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia. Lotharingia is a history of in-between Europe. It is the story of a place between places. In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book, Simon Winder retraces the various powers that have tried to overtake the land that stretches from the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps and the might of the peoples who have lived there for centuries.
Author : Ronald Wayne Robinson
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773485648
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Prison Hostage written by Ronald Wayne Robinson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping first-person account. Three inmates seized control of the school-library complex and took prison employees hostage. It ended in death for several of the hostages and two of the inmates. At the time, the author was a correctional educator, and in his final year of education and training as a criminologist.
Author : Edwin Mellen Press
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889464452
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (644 download)
Download or read book New Studies in Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung written by Edwin Mellen Press and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises papers presented at the 1988 Wagner conference in Seattle exploring this opera cycle as music, myth, theatre art, and literature, including comparisons with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland and James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Author : Brayton Polka
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739193163
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche written by Brayton Polka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche analyzes the operas and writings of Wagner in order to prove that the ideas on which they are based contradict and falsify the values that are fundamental to modernity. This book also analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Nietzsche, demonstrating that the values on the basis of which he breaks with Wagner and repudiates their common mentor, Schopenhauer, are those fundamental to modernity. Brayton Polka makes use of the critical distinction that Kierkegaard draws between Christianity and Christendom. Christianity represents what Nietzsche calls the faith that is presupposed in unconditionally willing the truth in saying yes to life. Christendom, in contrast, represents the bad faith of nihilism in saying no to life. Polka then shows that Wagner, in following Schopenhauer, represents Christendom with the demonstration in his operas that life is nothing but death and death is nothing but life. In other words, the purpose of the will for Wagner is to annihilate the will, since it is only in and through death that human beings are liberated from life as willfully sinful. Nietzsche, in contrast, is consistent with the biblical concept that existence is created from nothing, from nothing that is not made in the image of God, that any claim that the will can will not to will is contradictory and hence false. For not to will is, in truth, still to will nothing. There is then, Nietzsche shows, no escape from the will. Either human beings will the truth in saying yes to life as created from nothing, or in truly willing nothing, they say no to life in worshiping the God of Christendom who is dead.
Author : Lee McAulay
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244855161
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Shadowbox written by Lee McAulay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Louis DiGaetani
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786482467
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Inside the Ring written by John Louis DiGaetani and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once tainted by association with Hitler and Nazism, Richard Wagner’s work has experienced an international cultural renaissance in the last 25 years. His magnum opus, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which took him over 20 years to finish, is a complex tale with themes of greed, corruption and loss, spun out in more than 16 hours of powerfully moving opera. This book, with provocative essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, examines Wagner’s Ring cycle from a wide array of modern perspectives. Divided into six parts, this anthology first offers a foundation for the Ring, with a chronology and an introduction, along with a look at Wagner as an enterprising marketer. Part Two explores different interpretations of the Ring, with reference to politics, romanticism and international inspirations. Part Three studies the complex relationship between Wagner’s Ring and Germany, with a summary of the opera’s influence on German culture and a discussion of its Munich premiere. Part Four offers a production history, including studies of the Ring’s effects in America and its influence on world literature. Part Five provides a technical examination of language in the Ring, as well as an interview with the famous Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen. The book concludes with an essay on the trouble with Wagnerian opera and an overview of the recorded Ring on disc, video and print.
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932880
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author : Emma Sutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198187325
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s written by Emma Sutton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutton presents a study of the influence of Richard Wagner on the work of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). She explores the role of Wagnerism within British culture of the 1890's, in particular the relations between Wagnerism and the decadent movement.
Author : Wendell G. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440839417
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book End of Days written by Wendell G. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering religious traditions ranging from Buddhism to Christianity to Zoroastrianism and modern apocalyptic movements such as Arun Shinrikyo and the Branch Davidians, this book addresses prophesied end of days from a breadth of perspectives and includes material on often-neglected themes and genres. End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions describes apocalyptic writings in the world's major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. The cross-referenced entries address ancient traditions—Zoroastrianism, as one example—as well as modern apocalyptic movements, such as Arun Shinrikyo, the Branch Davidians, and the Order of the Solar Temple. This book's broad scope offers coverage of overlooked traditions, such as Mayan Apocalyptic, Norse Apocalyptic, Native American eschatological literatures, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Readers seeking detailed information on the eschatological and apocalyptic movements and proponents of End Times can reference entries about individuals such as Harold Camping, Jerry Falwell, David Koresh of the Brand Davidians, and James Jones and the People's Temple. This single-volume encyclopedia also contains numerous historical entries on subjects such as the Great Disappointment, the Great Awakening periods of religious revival, Joachim of Flora, the Maccabean Revolt, and the Plymouth Brethren. The influence of apocalyptic ideas far outside the realm of religion itself is documented through entries on film, including well-known modern movies such as The Hunger Games and Apocalypse Now, literature by writers such as Dante, and works of fine art like Wagner's Götterdämmerung. The inclusion of entries related to literature, film, and other art forms further attests to the wide-ranging social influence of belief in the end of days.
Author : William Berger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756343
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Wagner Without Fear written by William Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you cringe when your opera-loving friends start raving about the latest production of Tristan? Do you feel faint just thinking about the six-hour performance of Parsifal you were given tickets to? Does your mate accuse you of having a Tannhäuser complex? If you're baffled by the behavior of Wagner worshipers, if you've longed to fathom the mysteries of Wagner's ever-increasing popularity, or if you just want to better understand and enjoy the performances you're attending, you'll find this delightful book indispensable. William Berger is the most helpful guide one could hope to find for navigating the strange and beautiful world of the most controversial artist who ever lived. He tells you all you need to know to become a true Wagnerite--from story lines to historical background; from when to visit the rest room to how to sound smart during intermission; from the Jewish legend that possibly inspired Lohengrin to the tragic death of the first Tristan. Funny, informative, and always a pleasure to read, Wagner Without Fear proves that the art of Wagner can be accessible to everyone. Includes: - The strange life of Richard Wagner--German patriot (and exile), friend (and enemy) of Liszt and Nietzsche - Essential opera lore and "lobby talk" - A scene-by-scene analysis of each opera - What to listen for to get the most from the music - Recommended recordings, films, and sound tracks
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dusk of the Gods written by Richard Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Denis Forman
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307807827
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Night at the Opera written by Sir Denis Forman and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are “worth looking out for,” “really good,” or, occasionally, “stunning.” He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception. Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an “X”), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is “a bit of a mess,” while the last scene of Don Giovanni “towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Così and whether or not [it] is Mozart's greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.” The guide also presents brief biographies of the great composers, conductors, and singers. A glossary of musical terms is included, as well as Operatica, or the essential elements of opera, from the proper place and style of the audience's applause (and boos) to the use of subtitles. A Night at the Opera is for connoisseurs and neophytes alike. It will entertain and inform, delight and (perhaps) infuriate, providing a subject for lively debate and ready reference for years to come.
Author : Nancy Jack Todd
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300071733
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)
Download or read book People, Land, and Community written by Nancy Jack Todd and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Degradation of environment and community, along with its economic causes, has been the subject of much concern in recent years. In this book, some authorities in the field discuss the historical, cultural, social, political and economic implications of this degradation and suggest citizen initiatives that may halt it.
