Penetrating Wagner's Ring : an anthology / edited by John Louis DiGaetani.

Other author DiGaetani, John Louis, 1943- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoRutherford, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©1978.
Description453 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen.

Contents Introduction / by John Louis DiGaetani -- The intention. Excerpts from Wagner's letters and prose works -- The theory. Wagner's theory of opera / Bryan Magee -- Priests of art, poets of light / James Burdick -- A total interpretation. The Rhine gold / George Bernard Shaw -- Myth and music / Robert Donington -- A Freudian view of the Ring / Robert L. Jacobs -- Counsel's opinion: The Ring and the law / Charles Fletcher-Cooke -- Der Ring des Nibelungen, Whose gold? Whose ring? Whose helmet? / Charles Fletcher-Cooke -- The Ring of the Nibelung / Hans Mayer -- Artistic backgrounds. The Ring of the Nibelung / Ernest Newman -- Alberich's ring / William Mann -- The break in the Ring / David Marcus -- Historical influence. Richard Wagner and German nationalism / Frank B. Josserand -- Hitler, national socialism, and Richard Wagner / George G. Windell -- Richard Wagner and his feminine allies / George G. Windell -- Literary sources. The sources of the poems / W.J. Henderson -- The Ring and its characters / Audrey Williamson -- Musical architecture. The music of the trilogy / W.J. Henderson -- Down with visiting cards / William Mann -- The individual operas. The Rhinegold / Jack Stein -- Richard Wagner's mythic models / Lynn Snook -- Down to Earth: the humanity of Die Walküre / John Culshaw -- The Valkyrie / Jessie Weston -- Siegfried, the music and the ideas / Jeremy Noble -- Götterdämmerung / Chappell White -- Götterdämmerung, possible solutions to some Wagner problems / P.J. Ryde -- Modern stagings. The lighting / Adolphe Appia -- The staging of the Ring / Adolphe Appia -- Tradition and innovation / Wieland Wagner -- Towards a new Ring / Harold Rosenthal -- The Ring in English. Translating The Valkyrie / Andrew Porter -- On performance. A few words from the conductor / Georg Solti -- An interview with Thomas Stewart / John Louis DiGaetani -- The problem of Wagnerian difficulties, playing violin passages / Sol Babitz -- A reporter at large, my grandfather would be all for it / Joseph Wechsberg -- New directions for the ring / John Culshaw -- A Ring chronology -- An annotated discography / John Louis DiGaetani -- For further reading, an annotated bibliography / John Louis DiGaetani.
Abstract Wagner's Ring cycle--The Ring of the Niebelung--has been described as one of the most enduring of operatic spectacles, and the best writing on the subject has here been brought together in a collection that includes articles by George Bernard Shaw, Georg Solti and Andrew Porter; excerpts from Wagner's own letters and works; and discourses by over thirty other writers. Here is a complete coverage of the tetralogy of the Ring--Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Gotterdammerung--in essays on Wagner's intention, the theory behind it, its interpretation, artistic backgrounds, historical influences, literary sources, musical architecture, modern stagings, the Ring in English, and various styles of performance.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 447-453) and discography (pages 443-445).
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