Wagner's Das Rheingold
by
Warren Darcy
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0198166036
ISBN-13
9780198166030
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 28th, 1996
Print length
274 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
32.30 x 23.30 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)OperaIndividual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
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In this book, Warren Darcy traces the compositional genesis of Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, the first opera of his great operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. He also attempts a comprehensive formal and tonal analysis of the piece. Basing his work upon Wagner's textual and musical manuscripts, he employs the most up-to-date analytical techniques.
Richard Wagner''s opera Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer''s outlput and in the history of music in general. It marked Wagner''s return to operatic composition after a hiatus of five years, and signified his definitive break with earlier operatic conventions. it also represents a reconsideration of the whole question of dramatic-musical form, and the role of tonality in articulating this form.Warren Darcy traces here the genesis of Das Rheingold through the various textual and musical sketches and drafts to the full score, and also develops a theoretical framework within which the opera may be meaningfully analysed. Using Wagner''s manuscripts as a point of departure, Darcy discusses the formal, harmonic, and linear structure of the work. In so doing, he challenges a number of contemporary views about the opera, including those of Curt von Westernhagen and Carl Dahlhaus.
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