Beyond Reason: Wagner contra NietzscheBeyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the “secret” of large-scale form in Wagner’s music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts. |
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PART TWO | 191 |
The MusicDramatic Plan | 413 |
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Acknowledgments | 449 |
Abbreviations Used in Notes | 453 |
Notes | 455 |
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A-flat aesthetic Alberich Amfortas aria arioso articulated artistic Bayreuth Beckmesser beginning Brünnhilde Brünnhilde’s Ç Ç cabaletta cantabile Carl Dahlhaus character Christian Communion composer composer’s Cosima culture Dahlhaus death desire discourse Dream Song erotic essay final Friedrich Nietzsche German Götterdämmerung Gurnemanz Hagen Hegel hence hero human Ibid idea incipit Measures CD.track.time individual interlude Isolde’s Kant Kant’s Kundry leitmotifs Love Duet lovers lyrical masters Meistersinger Mime Monologue moral motive music drama narrative nation nature Nietzsche Nietzsche’s Night Norns one’s onstage opera orchestral Parsifal Parsifal’s phrase political postlude Prelude protagonists realm Recitative dialogue refrain Rheingold Rhinedaughters Richard Wagner Ring Sachs Sachs’s scene Schopenhauer Schopenhauer’s Siegfried Siegfried’s Sieglinde Siegmund Song stage direction stanza story Sword Tarnhelm Text incipit Measures thought tion traditional trans transcendence Transfiguration Trial Song Tristan und Isolde University Valhalla voice Wagnerian Walküre Walther whole Wotan WWVI