Wagner's Das Rheingold (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure) (Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation) - Softcover

Darcy, Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198166036 ISBN 13: 9780198166030

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Synopsis

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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Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer's output and in the history of music in general. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198166036
• ISBN 13: 9780198166030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276