Wagner's Parsifal

Wagner's Parsifal

This study explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career, and offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of 'Parsifal' that illuminates the connection of Wagner's legacy to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinderman, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Wagner, Richard, > 1813-1883. > Parsifal.
Parsifal (Wagner, Richard)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Process of Composition
  • 1. Poem: Its Background and Evolution
  • Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente
  • Paris and Dresden Periods
  • Parzival as Wandering Pilgrim in Tristan und Isolde
  • Kundry as a Mysterious Compound Being
  • Prose Draft of 1865
  • Completion of the Text
  • 2. Genesis of the Music
  • "Dresden Amen" and "Excelsior!" Motives
  • Sketch Fragments and Their Reconstruction
  • Earliest Sketches
  • "Core of the Whole": the Music of the Grail
  • Relation of Sketches and Drafts
  • Act 1
  • Act 2
  • Act 3
  • Revisions after April 1879
  • Transformation Music of Act I
  • pt. 2 Musical Form and Dramatic Meaning
  • 3. Wagner's Late Style
  • 4. Grail and Anti-Grail
  • 5. Sense of an Ending.

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