The tragic and the ecstatic the musical revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chafe, Eric Thomas, 1946-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • The path to Schopenhauer
  • Tristan and Schopenhauer
  • Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg I : Minne
  • Tristan and Gottfried von Strassburg II : Honor
  • The desire music
  • The Prelude : a musico-poetic view
  • Tragedy and dramatic structure
  • The two death motives
  • Musico-poetic design in Act 1
  • Act 2, Scene 1 : night and Minne
  • The Love Scene in Act 2 : transition and periodicity
  • Tristan's answer to King Mark : moral and philosophical questions
  • Act 3 : musico-poetic design
  • Love as fearful torment
  • The road to salvation.