Wagner Studies

"Ten leading international Wagner scholars discuss analytical or theoretical questions posed by Wagner's music. Addressing the works from Die Feen through Parsifal, they combine a variety of music-analytical methods with approaches to dramaturgy, hermeneutics, reception history, and discursive analysis of sexuality and ideology"--

List of contents

List of figures; List of tables; List of music examples; List of contributors; Introduction: analyzing Wagner Steven Vande Moortele: Part I Orientations: 1. 'Wo sind wir?': Tristan Disorientations Arnold Whittall; 2. Bottoming for Wagner: listening, analysis and (gay-male) subjectivity Matthew Bribitzer-Stull; Part II. Form, Drama and Convention: 3. Wagner and the uses of convention? La solita forma from Die Feen through Lohengrin William M. Marvin; 4. Elsa, Ortrud, the grail and the forbidden question: formal functions and rotational form in Lohengrin Graham Hunt; 5. Scena, form and drama in act 1 of Die Walküre Steven Vande Moortele; Part III. Time, Texture and Tonality: 6. Time, sound and regression in Tristan und Isolde Tobias Janz; 7. Waltraute's plaint: Riemannian tonal function and dramatic narrative J. P. E. Harper-Scott and Oliver Chandler; 8. Wagner's Late Counterpoint Ariane Jeßulat; Part IV. Reception: 9. Silence and Gesture in Mahler's Ninth Symphony and Wagner's Parsifal Anna Stoll Knecht; 10. Wagner's early analysts Alexander Rehding; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Steven Vande Moortele is Professor of Music at the University of Toronto. His books include Robert Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust (2020), The Romantic Overture and Musical Form from Rossini to Wagner (2017), Two-Dimensional Sonata Form (2009), and (as co-editor) Formal Functions in Perspective (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Steven Vande Moortele, Steven (University of Toronto) Vande Moortele
• Assisted by: Steven Vande Moortele (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781108837064
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83706-4
• No. of pages: 259
• Series: Print on Demand; Cambridge Composer Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Germany, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Theatre Studies, Composers and songwriters, Music reviews and criticism, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Theory of music and musicology