Basing his work upon Wagner's textual and musical manuscripts, Warren Darcy employs up-to-date analytical techniques to trace 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. Series: Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation. Num Pages: 274 pages, line figures, tables, music examples. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AVGC5; AVGC9; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480. . 1996. Revised ed. paperback. . . . .

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Title: Wagner's Das Rheingold (Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure) (Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure & Interpretation)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0198166036
ISBN 13: 9780198166030
Binding: Soft cover
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Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold is a milestone in the composer's output and in the history of music in general. It marked Wagner's return to operatic composition after a hiatus of five years, and signified his definitive break with earlier operatic conventions. It also represents a reconsideration of the whole question of dramatic-musical form, and the role of tonality in articulating this form. Warren Darcy traces here the genesis of Das Rheingold through the various textual and musical sketches and drafts to the full score, and also develops a theoretical framework within which the opera may be meaningfully analyzed. Using Wagner's manuscripts as a point of departure, Darcy discusses the formal, harmonic, and linear structure of the work. In so doing, he challenges a number of contemporary views about the opera, esppecially those of Carl Dahlhaus.

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Warren Darcy is at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.

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