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New essays demonstrating and exploring the abiding fascination of Wagner's controversial work. Richard Wagner's Parsifal remains an inexhaustible yet highly controversial work. This "stage consecration festival play," as the composer described it, represents the culmination of his efforts to bring medieval myth and modern music together in a dynamic relationship. Wagner's engagement with religion--Buddhist as well as Christian--reaches a climax here, as he seeks through artistic means "to rescue the essence of religion by perceiving its mythical symbols . . . according to their figurative value, enabling us to see their profound, hidden truth through idealized representation." The contributors to this collection break fresh ground in exploring the text, the music, andthe reception history of Parsifal. Wagner's borrowings-and departures-from the medieval sources of the Grail legend, Wolfram's Parzival and Chretien's Perceval, are considered in detail, and the tensional relation of the work to Christianity is probed. New perspectives emerge that bear on the long genesis of the text and music, its affinities to Wagner's earlier works, particularly Tristan und Isolde, and the precise way in which the music was composed. Essays address the work's bold, modernistic musical language and its unprecedented soundscape involving hidden choruses and other unseen sources of sound. The turbulent, astonishing, and sometimes disturbing history of Parsifal performances from 1882 until 2004 is traced in vivid detail for the first time, demonstrating the abiding fascination exerted by this uniquely challenging work of art. Contributors: MaryA. Cicora, James M. McGlathery, Ulrike Kienzle, Warren Darcy, Roger Allen. William Kinderman and Katherine Syer teach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and often lead study seminars during the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany.
Elements of Sonata Theory is a comprehensive, richly detailed
rethinking of the basic principles of sonata form in the decades
around 1800. This foundational study draws upon the joint strengths
of current music history and music theory to outline a new,
up-to-date paradigm for understanding the compositional choices
found in the instrumental works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and
their contemporaries: sonatas, chamber music, symphonies,
overtures, and concertos. In so doing, it also lays out the
indispensable groundwork for anyone wishing to confront the later
adaptations and deformations of these basic structures in the
nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries.
In this book, Warren Darcy traces the compositional genesis of Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, the first opera of his great operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen. He also attempts a comprehensive formal and tonal analysis of the piece. Basing his work upon Wagner's textual and musical manuscripts, he employs the most up-to-date analytical techniques.
For over 150 years the concept of "sonata form" lay at the heart of
European instrumental music. Now, in Elements of Sonata Theory,
musicologist James Hepokoski and music theorist Warren Darcy
rethink its basic principles. Considering not only sonatas but also
chamber music, symphonies, overtures, and concertos, their study
outlines a new, updated paradigm for understanding the
compositional choices present in the instrumental works of Haydn,
Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries. It also lays down an
indispensable foundation for those working with later adaptations
and deformations of these musical structures in the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.
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