Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
by George Ainslie Hight
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hight, George Ainslie, 1851-1937
- Title
- Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde": An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
- Credits
- Tiffany Vergon, Charles Aldarondo, Cam Venezuela, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- ML: Music: Literature of music
- Subject
- Opera
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 7834
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7834
- Release Date
- April 1, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.WAGNER'S "TRISTAN UND ISOLDE"
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CHAPTER I — ON WAGNER CRITICISM
- 4.CHAPTER II — WAGNER AS MAN
- 5.CHAPTER III — Wagner's Theoretical Writings
- 6.CHAPTER IV — THE ROOTS OF GERMAN MUSIC
- 7.CHAPTER V — THE WAGNERIAN DRAMA AND ITS ANTECEDENTS
- 8.CHAPTER VI — THE EARLIER VERSIONS OF THE TRISTAN MYTH
- 9.CHAPTER VII — WAGNER'S CONCEPTION OF THE TRISTAN MYTHOS
- 10.CHAPTER VIII — ON CERTAIN OBJECTIONS TO THE WAGNERIAN DRAMA
- 11.CHAPTER IX — MUSIC AS AN ART OF EXPRESSION
- 12.CHAPTER X — SOME REMARKS ON THE MUSICAL DICTION OF TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
- 13.CHAPTER XI — OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC
- 14.CHAPTER XII — OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED
- 15.CHAPTER XIII — OBSERVATIONS ON THE TEXT AND MUSIC CONTINUED
- 16.CHAPTER XIV — CONCLUSION
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