Wagner''s Das Rheingold

Zusatztext 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Warren Darcy, Warren (Professor of Music Theory Darcy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.1996
• EAN: 9780198166030
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816603-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation; Studies in Musical Genesis, St; Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history