Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Wagner and the problematics of “absolute music” in the nineteenth century
- 2 Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: “poetic ideas” and new forms
- 3 Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors
- 4 The “poetic-musical period” and the “evolution” of Wagnerian form
- 5 Endless melodies
- 6 Motives and motivations: leitmotif and “symphonic” drama
- Appendix 1 The “poetic-musical period” (from Opera and Drama, Part III, section 3)
- Appendix 2 Principal writings of Richard Wagner cited in the text
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Wagner and the problematics of “absolute music” in the nineteenth century
- 2 Beethoven reception and the hermeneutic impulse: “poetic ideas” and new forms
- 3 Engendering music drama: Opera and Drama and its metaphors
- 4 The “poetic-musical period” and the “evolution” of Wagnerian form
- 5 Endless melodies
- 6 Motives and motivations: leitmotif and “symphonic” drama
- Appendix 1 The “poetic-musical period” (from Opera and Drama, Part III, section 3)
- Appendix 2 Principal writings of Richard Wagner cited in the text
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Wagner's Musical ProseTexts and Contexts, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995