The Perfect Wagnerite: a Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
by Bernard Shaw
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About this eBook
- Author
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
- Title
- The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring
- Credits
- Produced by Dianne Bean, and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- MT: Music: Musical instruction and study, Composition
- Subject
- Opera
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1487
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1487
- Release Date
- October 1, 1998
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE PERFECT WAGNERITE A COMMENTARY ON THE NIBLUNG'S RING
- 2.by Bernard Shaw
- 3.Preface to the First German Edition
- 4.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- 5.Preface to the First Edition
- 6.THE PERFECT WAGNERITE
- 7.PRELIMINARY ENCOURAGEMENTS
- 8.THE RING OF THE NIBLUNGS
- 9.THE RHINE GOLD
- 10.WAGNER AS REVOLUTIONIST
- 11.THE VALKYRIES
- 12.SIEGFRIED
- 13.BACK TO OPERA AGAIN
- 14.SIEGFRIED AS PROTESTANT
- 15.PANACEA QUACKERY, OTHERWISE IDEALISM
- 16.DRAMATIC ORIGIN OF WOTAN
- 17.THE LOVE PANACEA
- 18.NOT LOVE, BUT LIFE
- 19.ANARCHISM NO PANACEA
- 20.SIEGFRIED CONCLUDED
- 21.NIGHT FALLS ON THE GODS
- 22.PROLOGUE
- 23.A WAGNERIAN NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY
- 24.FORGOTTEN ERE FINISHED
- 25.WHY HE CHANGED HIS MIND
- 26.WAGNER'S OWN EXPLANATION
- 27.THE PESSIMIST AS AMORIST
- 28.THE MUSIC OF THE RING — THE REPRESENTATIVE THEMES
- 29.THE CHARACTERIZATION
- 30.THE OLD AND THE NEW MUSIC
- 31.THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 32.THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE
- 33.BAYREUTH
- 34.BAYREUTH IN ENGLAND
- 35.WAGNERIAN SINGERS
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