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Wagner's Das Rheingold

Wagner's Das Rheingold

Darcy, Warren

Paperback

Series: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation

OperaMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0198166036
ISBN13: 9780198166030
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jul 25 1996
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer's output 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 analyzed. 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, esppecially those of Carl Dahlhaus.

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