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Wagner Nights

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520323041
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Wagner Nights written by Joseph Horowitz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but—as Joseph Horowitz shows in this first history of Wagnerism in the United States—the American obsession was unique. The central figure in Wagner Nights is conductor Anton Seidl (1850-1898), a priestly and enigmatic personage in New York musical life. Seidl's own admirers included the women of the Brooklyn-based Seidl Society, who wore the letter "S" on their dresses. In the summers, Seidl conducted fourteen times a week at Brighton Beach, filling the three-thousand-seat music pavilion to capacity. The fact that most Wagnerites were women was a distinguishing feature of American Wagnerism and constituted a vital aspect of the fin-de-siècle ferment that anticipated the New American Woman. Drawing on the work of such cultural historians as T. Jackson Lears and Lawrence Levine, Horowitz's lively history reveals an "Americanized" Wagner never documented before. An entertaining and startling read, a treasury of operatic lore, Wagner Nights offers an unprecedented revisionist history of American culture a century ago. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Night Winds

Author : Karl Edward Wagner
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 057509625X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Night Winds written by Karl Edward Wagner and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where once the mighty Kane has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trail of past battles, Kane travels again. To the ruins of a devastated city peopled only with half-men and the waif they call their queen. To the half-burnt tavern where a woman Kane wronged long ago holds his child in keeping for the Devil. To the cave kingdom of the giants where glory and its aftermath await discovery. To the house of death itself where Kane retrieves a woman in love. The past, the future, the present - all these are one for Kane as he travels through the centuries. Contents: "Undertow" "Two Suns Setting" "The Dark Muse" "Raven's Eyrie" "Lynortis Reprise" "Sing a Last Song of Valdese"

Wagner Nights

Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wagner Nights written by Ernest Newman and published by Pan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eroticization of Distance

Author : Joseph D. Kuzma
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498524397
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Eroticization of Distance written by Joseph D. Kuzma and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot and the Legacy of Courtly Love, Joseph D. Kuzma explores the significance of courtly erotic themes in Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature philosophy and in Maurice Blanchot’s writings of the 1940s and early 1950s. Rather than offering an account of erotic relationality that prioritizes reconciliation, fulfillment, or release, Nietzsche attempts to formulate a nonteleological eroticism that aims at nothing but the perpetual intensification of desire. Kuzma suggests that it is Blanchot who carries Nietzsche’s courtly erotic tendencies to their most provocative point, by highlighting potentials for intimate relationality that might be established through a shared experience of dispossession and loss. This first monograph to engage specifically with the theme of eroticism in Blanchot’s writings will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Nietzsche, Blanchot, or French philosophy, but also anyone interested in the philosophy of sexuality, the history of love, theories of the emotions, or nineteenth and twentieth-century European thought more generally.

Body Knowledge

Author : Mary Simonson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199898030
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Body Knowledge written by Mary Simonson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.

Classical Music In America

Author : Joseph Horowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057171
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Classical Music In America written by Joseph Horowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven, and he traces a musical trajectory rising to its peak at the close of the 19th century and receding after World War I.

A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571132376
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Wagner's Parsifal written by William Kinderman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work.

Wagner

Author : Barry Millington
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691027226
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wagner written by Barry Millington and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner is one of the most controversial of composers, and much that has been written about him--including his autobiography--is misleading. Barry Millington draws on the best previous scholarship and his own original research to set the record straight. The first part of this book is devoted to biography; the second, to a detailed study of the operas. Millington offers a historical review of the critical interpretation of each opera, including a discussion of recent methods of formal analysis. In this revised edition, two chapters, those on Tannhauser and Die Meistersinger, include significant new material. The bibliography has also been updated.

Wagner and Venice

Author : John W. Barker
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462884
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Wagner and Venice written by John W. Barker and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Wagner's lengthy stays in Venice, his death there, and the meaning of his works -- and his death -- for that great city and its mystique.

Richard Wagner

Author : Joachim Köhler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300104226
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Joachim Köhler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new biography of Richard Wagner is iconoclastic, astringent and bold. It explores the philosophical roots of Wagner's work, which the composer himself deliberately obfuscated. It re-evaluates Wagner's relationships with his mother, step-father and - most revealingly - his wife, Cosima, standing received opinion on its head. And he meets head on, and confirms, the controversy over Wagner's anti-semitism. At the same time, and notwithstanding, Kohler profoundly acknowledges Wagner's genius.

Natalie Curtis Burlin

Author : Michelle Wick Patterson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803230230
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Natalie Curtis Burlin written by Michelle Wick Patterson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Wick Patterson examines the life, work, and legacy of Curtis at the turn of the century. The influence of increased industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and shaken social mores motivated Curtis to emphasize Native and African American contributions to the antimodernist discourse of this period. Additionally, Curtis's work in the field and her actions with informants reflect the impact of the changing status of women in public life, marriage, and the professions as well as new ideas regarding race and culture.

Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. IV (1904)

Author : Carl Francis Glasenapp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351341790
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. IV (1904) written by Carl Francis Glasenapp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourth volume of Carl Francis Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner.

The Wagner Operas

Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691027166
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book The Wagner Operas written by Ernest Newman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic guide, the foremost Wagner expert of our century discusses ten of Wagner's most beloved operas, illuminates their key themes and the myths and literary sources behind the librettos, and demonstrates how the composer's style changed from work to work. Acclaimed as the most complete and intellectually satisfying analysis of the Wagner operas, the book has met with unreserved enthusiasm from specialist and casual music lover alike. Here, available for the first time in a single paperback volume, is the perfect companion for listening to, or attending, The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, Die Meistersinger, the four operas of the Ring Cycle, and Parsifal. Newman enriches his treatment of the stories, texts, and music of the operas with biographical and historical materials from the store of knowledge that he acquired while completing his numerous books on Wagner, including the magisterial Life of Richard Wagner. The text of The Wagner Operas is filled with hundreds of musical examples from the scores, and all the important leitmotifs and their interrelationships are made clear in Newman's lucid prose. "This is as fine an introduction as any ever written about a major composer's masterpieces. Newman outlines with unfailing clarity and astuteness each opera's dramatic sources, and he takes the student through the completed opera, step by step, with all manner of incidental insight along the way."--Robert Bailey, New York University

Life of Richard Wagner

Author : Carl Friedrich Glasenapp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Life of Richard Wagner written by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Author : Christopher Kimbell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040040616
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Tradition, Community, and Nationhood in Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg written by Christopher Kimbell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German national opera. The work’s significance as a touchstone of national culture survived even such troubling episodes as its public endorsement in 1933 as ‘the most German of all German operas’ by Joseph Goebbels or the rendition in previous years by audiences at Bayreuth of both national and Nazi-party anthems at the work’s culmination. This chequered reception history and apparent propensity for reinterpretation or reclamation has long fuelled debates over the socio-political meanings of Wagner’s musical narrative. On the question of Beckmesser, for instance, heated arguments have surrounded the existence of antisemitic stereotypes in the work as well as their possible indication of a racial-political dimension to Sachs’s restoration of Nuremberg society. Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersinger’s narrative. In four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, the book traces a critical potential within the opera’s construction of provincial and national identities and problematizes existing discourse around its depiction of race and gender.

Wagner's Ring

Author : J. K. Holman
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670707
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Wagner's Ring written by J. K. Holman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). This book explores the mythology, story, music, characters and language of Wagner's monumental work. At its heart is a concordance of the keywords in the four librettos, a powerful reference tool. The volume also includes a brief synopsis of each of the four operas, a presentation of the 145 principal musical motives in order of appearance, and a discussion of the characters and their relationships, listing their appearances and the musical motives associated with them.

The Necessity of Music

Author : Celia Applegate
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487511604
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Necessity of Music written by Celia Applegate and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather than focus on familiar stories of composers and their work Applegate illuminates the myriad ways in which music is integral to German social life. Musical life reflected the polycentric nature of German social and political life, even while it provided many opportunities to experience what was common among Germans. Musical activities also allowed Germans, whether professional musicians, dedicated amateurs, or simply listeners, to participate in European culture. Applegate’s original and fascinating analysis of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, and military music enables the reader to understand music through the experiences of listeners, performers, and institutions. The Necessity of Music demonstrates that playing, experiencing, and interpreting music was a powerful factor that shaped German collective life.