Wagner's Das Rheingold

ISBN-13: 9780198166030 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 288 str.

Warren Darcy

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Warren darcy's recent monograph on Das Rheingold...is the first full-length study of such source material to appear...a reference source for those interested in pursuing critical or analytical readings of individual passages from Das Rheingold or considering analytical issues in Wagner more generally.